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AlphaBay marketplace was originally seized in 2017 but now someone claiming to be DeSnake, the original AlphaBay co-founder has announced bringing the marketplace back to business. There’s little doubt that law enforcement agencies worldwide have got hold of cybercriminal marketplaces, and their business has almost gone defunct. But, seems like that won’t be the case […]
The accused is a Greek national who used AlphaBay marketplace with the alias “The Bull” on the dark web for insider trading information. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a 30-year-old Greek national, Apostolos Trovias, for securities fraud and money laundering. The SEC states that Trovias, who used the screen name The Bull, is an […]
AlphaBay was one of the largest dark web marketplaces – In 2017, its admin Alexandre Cazes committed suicide in a Thai prison. The Fresno Division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California has finally concluded a 14-month long civil forfeiture case and allowed seizure of property and assets of a Canadian national Alexandre Cazes […]
The hacker also sold drugs on Dark Web and taught others how to carry cyber attacks and scams. Grant West, a notorious Dark Web hacker from Britain has been sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison for hacking hundreds of companies, stealing data of millions of customers and selling it on Dark Web marketplaces. […]
Grant West, a cunning hacker who goes by the online handle of “Courvoisier” on the Dark Web has been arrested by British police. The 26-year-old hacker is known for hacking over 200 companies around the world including Apple, Asda, Uber, and Just Eat, Groupon, and Nectar etc. West not only breached the security of these companies but […]
Hansa was once the second largest dark web marketplace after AlphaBay selling everything from illegal drugs to stolen databases, credit card information and malicious software. But then Dutch Police came in, secretly took control of Hansa domain days before seizing its domain and arrested its administrators, buyers, and sellers. The sudden bust shocked the customers as well as […]
The 40-year-old David Ryan Burchard from Merced, a dark web vendor California has been sentenced to six years in prison for selling illegal drugs on several dark web marketplaces including Silk Road, AlphaBay, Agora, and Abraxas. Burchard who went by the online handle of “Caliconnect” on the dark web was arrested in March 2016, and initially was pleaded not guilty […]
It is now possible to take into account that two of the largest dark online websites – and AlphaBay Hansa – are called the largest black-market operation of the dark fabric conducted by the FBI, the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency ) And the police of Dutch nationality. However, the interesting aspect of the failure is […]
Today, in coordinated press releases, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and Europol announced the takedown of two Dark Web marketplaces — AlphaBay and Hansa Market. US Attorney General Jeff Sessions officially confirmed today a coordinated international law enforcement effort to take down AlphaBay after news of raids and arrests in the US, Canada, and […]
AlphaBay, one of the largest Dark Web markets for drugs, weapons and other illegal products that mysteriously darkened at the beginning of this month without any explanation from its directors. AlphaBay Shut Down After Police Raid it was closed by international authorities. On July 4, the dark web market suddenly dropped without any explanation of […]
AlphaBay, an online marketplace that sold illegal products on the Dark Web, has been taken offline following raids in three countries, according to several reports. Raids took place across the US, Canada, and Thailand, on July 5, the same day AlphaBay mysteriously went down. Authorities have declined to comment on the issue, but the Wall Street […]
Over 200,000 messages were compromised due to a security flaw. One of the largest trading posts on the Dark Web, AlphaBay, has rewarded a researcher for disclosing the existence of a vulnerability which allowed him to steal over 200,000 private messages exchanged between users and sellers. Earlier this week, the hacker, known only as Cipher0007, […]