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A Polish man residing in Ireland was sentenced to three years in prison suspended after he pleaded guilty to possession of hundreds of child pornography images. The defendant downloaded the images from a now-defunct dark web child pornography site. According to reports, Wojciech Odrobina of Prospect Woods in Longford was arrested and charged in August […]
A Georgia man admitted his role as the ringleader of a large-scale drug trafficking operation responsible for producing and distributing up to 200,000 pills every month at the operation’s peak. Four out of his five co-conspirators have already pleaded guilty to similar crimes. Walker Forrester, a 25-year-old from Loganville, Georgia, pleaded guilty to Possession with […]
A 35-year-old man from Northern Portugal was sentenced to 76 months in prison for dark web drug trafficking and money laundering. The defendant will also forfeit bitcoins and possessions seized during his arrest. The defendant ran the drug trafficking operation with the help of his girlfriend who was acquitted. Pedro, 35 and Rita, 34 reportedly […]
A young man from Hull, United Kingdom was sentenced to 3 years in prison for selling ecstasy and ketamine sourced from the darkweb. The defendant admitted that he purchased drugs on the darkweb and resold them locally in nightclubs and out of his home in Hull. According to reports, 20-year-old Reece Proctor was arrested on […]
Two were sentenced prison for running a “major darkweb dug operation” out of their Liverpool home. According to evidence revealed in court, the duo shipped hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of methamphetamine, MDMA, ketamine, and cocaine to customers across the globe. Officers with the North West Regional Organized Crime Unit raided the Toxteth home […]
Law enforcement in the Czech Republic arrested five individuals for running an international drug trafficking ring out of Brno. The group allegedly orchestrated the shipment of kilograms of ecstasy pills, cocaine, and methamphetamine into the United States, Australia, and elsewhere. Five residents of Brno, Czech Republic, allegedly sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of […]
Australian law enforcement arrested two suspected drug traffickers and seized more than $1.5 million in cryptocurrency after the Australian Border Force intercepted two packages containing a combined total of 55 grams of MDMA. The cryptocurrency seizure was one of the largest of its kind in Western Australia. The Australian Border Force announced in a recent […]
DNSTARS, the self-described “independent drug testing and publishing platform” is shutting down. The forum is most well known for hosting the results of drug identification or purity tests from Energy Control, EcstasyData, Wedinos, and other drug testing laboratories. Users of the forum often pay for an analysis of a substance from a darkweb vendor and […]
Nine members of a 13-member darkweb drug trafficking ring were imprisoned for their roles in the operation. The ring sold a variety of drugs through the darkweb where they accepted orders and received payment in bitcoin. They used German post offices and mailboxes located in the German-Dutch border region to deliver drugs to their customers […]
Police in Austria shut down a large-scale drug trafficking operation that conducted operations electronically. According to the police, the group purchased drugs on the darkweb and resold them to customers locally through messaging applications. The group used drops and never physically interacted with their customers. This week, the Vienna State Office of Criminal Investigation held […]
Recently unsealed court documents uncovered an FBI search warrant application requesting information on a PlayStation user from Sony. The allegedly user believed audio communication between players was secure and therefore safe for arranging drug deals. As first reported by Joseph Cox, a warrant application filed in the Western District of Missouri details an FBI investigation […]
Operation and Arrests An international operation led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) took down the Imminent Monitor web page and shut down the sale of the now-defunct Imminent Monitor Remote Access Trojan (IM-RAT). The takedown operation resulted in the arrest of 13 of the ‘most prolific’ users of the Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool. […]
The Federal Drug Agents Foundation provided a Lieutenant of the South Brunswick Police Department with an award for the takedown and arrest of the darkweb vendor “Sinmed.” The Sinmed bust led to the largest alprazolam seizure in the state of New Jersey. Police found thousands of pills in five gallon buckets from Home Depot. The […]
A Colorado judge sentenced a cocaine vendor to 66 months imprisonment for selling almost 50 kilograms of cocaine to his customers on a darkweb market. The vendor had also committed aggravated identity theft and money laundering, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Between April 2018 and September 2018, Timothy Howell and […]
After an unexpected shutdown followed by days of silence from staff, Cryptonia Market administration announced a hiatus of the market until 2020 as well as a plan to reimburse users who lost money during the downtime. Using this tweet from Dark.Fail as a reference, it appears as if the market went down roughly 11 days […]
Dread is back online after an extended period of downtime. The forum relaunched with a large set of new features including UI improvements, chatrooms, and better spam management tools. The new infrastructure should prevent some of the frequent 502 errors and increase the overall speed of the site. The drama surrounding Dread’s downtime has been […]
The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy Task Force updated their onion service to include the name of another darkweb vendor that federal investigators had identified. This time, according to the task force’s list, investigators identified an alprazolam vendor with a presence on Dread, Cryptonia Market, and Empire Market. Earlier this year, the Northern California Illicit […]
One member of a drug manufacturing ring in Pennsylvania was sentenced to 156 months in prison for selling counterfeit oxycodone pills on the darkweb. The conspirators purchased kilogram quantities of fentanyl on the darkweb, created fake oxycodone pills with a pill press, and then resold the pills both locally and on the darkweb. According to […]
A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is set to spend the next 15 months in prison for purchasing Xanax from a darkweb marketplace for and possessing a firearm. The defendant had been purchasing large quantities of Xanax on the darkweb to sell locally for one year or longer. According to court documents the investigation that led […]
A 19-year-old Austrian man was handed a suspended sentence after he admitted that he had purchased counterfeit euros on the dark web. The teen reportedly wanted to use the counterfeit bills to purchase drugs. “Accessing the dark web is general knowledge,” the teenager told the judge during sentencing. The judge questioned how the 19-year-old had […]
Cock.li, a service known to most as an email provider, temporarily shut down many of their services “due to an ongoing legal search order.” The owner of Cock.li reminded users that the full disk encryption on every server prevents law enforcement from actually collecting information from seized drives. German authorities notably raided and seized Cock.li […]