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Russian police acknowledged today that they were responsible for taking down RAMP [Russian Anonymous Marketplace] — a Tor-based market that primarily sold drugs — a Russian Interior Ministry official told Russian news agency TASS today. The takedown took place in July, but Russian authorities never made their action public, continuing to investigate suspected criminals. The news surfaced […]
Andrew Anglin, the administrator of the neo-nazi website DailyStormer, has no chill since he keeps on trying to make a comeback with his website on the regular web. Recently, the site successfully came online with a .at domain using the services of Austrian domain registrar (nic.at). But it took a few days for the company to boot off […]
DailyStormer, the neo-nazi and racist website is having a difficult time finding domain on the regular web. For the third time in a month, the website has been booted off from the web due to its indecent and racist content. In the latest, DailyStormer made a comeback through the Albanian domain provider (dailystormer.al) about three days ago, but […]
After DailyStormer, another Leading White-Supremacist Website Stormfront Taken Down For Good. Believe it or not, the oldest and insanely popular of all white supremacist websites Stormfront has gone offline since Friday, and its domain status is Under Hold. The site was taken down but the site’s host Network Solutions, which was hosting it since 1995. […]
It looks like the racist and neo-nazi website DailyStormer has no place left on the regular Internet. A few days ago the website was banned by GoDaddy and Suspended by Google. Then it turned out that the site has moved to the Russian domain service RU and the Dark Web. Now, it has been reported that […]
On August 14th it was reported that Internet domain registrar and web hosting giant GoDaddy banned the racist and neo-nazi website Daily Stormer from its platform after receiving tons of complaints aimed at the site’s content supporting white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr who killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old resident of Charlottesville, Virginia during the Unite the Right rally. The […]
In 2015, a 60-year-old man Robert D. Jackson from Georgetown Kentucky had his house raided by investigators who discovered a laptop in the middle of downloading child pornography. Jackson was then arrested in December that year and indicted by a jury in August 2016. In May 2017 Jackson pleaded guilty to two counts of child porn distribution and 25 counts of possession. […]
Authorities believe he is part of a larger bomb-threat-for-hire scheme on the Dark Web Jewish centers received over a hundred bomb threats this year due to which there was chaos among local organizations. These incidents raised concerns within the US as it generated a sentiment that anti-Semitic violence in the country was on the rise. […]
We have heard about Dark Web marketplace asking for funds to assassinate Donald Trump and Mike Pence – We have also heard about criminals offering physical revenge services but online sex trade through Dark Web? Well, Lukasz Pawel Herba, a Polish citizen, has been arrested for kidnapping a 20-year-old British woman in Italy and selling her online […]
A couple of weeks ago, AlphaBay and Hansa, two of the most popular dark web marketplaces were busted and seized by European law enforcement authorities. AlphaBay founder Alexandre Cazes then made it into the news by committing suicide in a Thai prison, but the fate of Hansa administration is still unknown. Those visiting the Hansa […]
Short Bytes: Talking at the DEF CON convention in Las Vegas, the Tor Project co-founder Roger Dingledine said that the dark web doesn’t exist and it’s just a few web pages. He added that media has wrongly labeled it as a heaven for illegal activities. Also, only 3% of Tor users connect to a hidden […]
Dutch Police are aggressively going after Dark Web vendors using data they collected from the recently seized Hansa Market. Currently, the infosec community and former Hansa vendors themselves have spotted two ways in which Dutch authorities are going after former Hansa vendors. Police gain access to Dream accounts via password reuse In the first, Dutch […]
A 38-year-old Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik who also happened to be the co-owner of BTC-e, one of the most popular and largest Bitcoin exchanges in Russia was arrested by Greek police in Thessaloniki city. The arrest was conducted on a warrant issued by the US law enforcement authorities suspecting him of money laundering of over $4 million via Bitcoin transactions […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), Europol and Dutch National Police have seized two of the most popular Dark Web marketplaces including AlphaBay and Hansa. According to Europol, “the infrastructure of an underground criminal economy responsible for the trading of over 350 000 illicit commodities including drugs, firearms and cybercrime malware.” AlphaBay Marketplace […]
A week ago we reported that AlphaBay, apparently the biggest dark web marketplace after the Silk Road went offline and users believed that they have been scammed by the site’s admins. But now, reports are that AlphaBay was shut down after a coordinated effort by the U.S, Canada, and Thailand’s law enforcement authorities resulted in the arrest […]
A fake browser called Rodeo that imitates Tor browser has been discovered luring users to create their accounts on the website which is essentially present in the dark web. The fake website is a marketplace for all kinds of illegal products stealing money from users. The Rodeo The website offers access to a dark web marketplace called […]
In normal circumstances, a pedophile receives harsh punishments, but in this case, a 24-year-old child abuse pornography offender has skipped jail time because he suffers from Asperger syndrome (AS). Vincenzo Tyrone Wiremu, a New Zealand citizen, shared explicit images of underage boys and girls including toddlers on the Dark Web. [irp posts=”55056″ name=”Thousands of NZ Airport Passengers forced […]
Short Bytes: According to the latest reports, a supposedly fake dark website called The Rodeo is being promoted through a web browser disguised as TOR. Rodeo allows the users to purchase illegal products from the dark web and pay using Bitcoins. But in reality, the website appears to be a scam to steal people’s money. […]
Brett McBain, 51 and David Buckley, 54 were arrested for creating a dark web chat room called £1TheOtherPlace which was used to share images of children being abused and included several links to such indecent images. £1TheOtherPlace The perpetrators described the chatroom as a channel for the respectful appreciation of youthful beauty. Almost every day, […]
Law enforcement authorities in Germany have shut down a major Dark Web child pornography website known as “Elysium.” The website which had around 87,000 members was a popular platform for people to exchange explicit images of children displaying physical and sexual abuse including toddlers. Screenshot from the website when it was online According to German federal police, Elysium […]
The AlphaBay Market went down Tuesday night without any explanation, many users that have purchased products on the marketplace fear the Exit-Scam. The news is shocking, the AlphaBay Market, one of the largest Dark Web black markets is down. We have analyzed many times the popular black market where it was possible to buy any kind of illegal goods, […]