Tagged: dark net

August 13, 2019 @ 8:14 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A judge has declared ‘moot’ Ross Ulbricht’s latest attempt to have his multiple life sentences voided/overruled lawyer Paul Grant failed to file papers withdrawing self as Ulbricht’s counsel. Ulbricht is seeking to have his sentences vacated and is alleging that original defense lawyer Joshua Drathel gave… Read More

May 13, 2019 @ 9:52 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Police from the Tel Aviv Police Cybercrime Unit have arrested two Israeli citizens accused of running a Dark Net media site called “Deepdotweb.” Several other French, German, Dutch and Brazilian nationals have also been arrested in an operation coordinated between local authorities and the US… Read More

May 5, 2019 @ 6:20 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Police in Germany and the US moved in this week to arrest three men in Germany they believe operated “Wall Street Market,” the world’s second largest Dark Net market for drugs and other illicit products, The Telegraph reports. Two more men associated with the case,… Read More

May 2, 2019 @ 10:40 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Six individuals in Leeds in Northern England have been convicted for their alleged involvement in a drug trafficking operation that used Bitcoins to import crystal methamphetamine from Canada, Examiner Live reports. The four main suspects in the case are Hassan Jalilian, Michael Bendo, Gohar Manzoor… Read More

April 27, 2019 @ 5:58 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Officials from the Cleveland Mayor’s Office are reportedly downplaying the significance of what appears to have been a successful ransomware attack on flight info, baggage and email systems at the Cleveland Airport, WTOC reports. Those systems are currently down, though “no hacking” has taken place… Read More

April 24, 2019 @ 11:24 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Two men who ran a Dark Net website called NextDayGear from which they sold more than 10 000 packages of illicit drugs have been convicted in New York. The men, Callaway Crain, 35, and Mark Sanchez, 35, both plead guilty, and now face between 2.5 and… Read More

April 18, 2019 @ 8:42 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The Winklevoss twins have reached a settlement with Charlie Shrem in the case they brought against him last November claiming he stole $61 000 USD of their funds and used them to buy 5000 Bitcoins in 2012. While details of the settlement are not publicly… Read More

April 8, 2019 @ 3:38 am By Cali Haan  |  

Hackers are selling and using a potentially devastating “new generation of (Trojan) malware” called Gustuff to hijack bank, cryptocurrency, remittance, and payment details and accounts of Android users, cybersecurity firm Group IB reports. Notably, the malware exploits Android Accessibility Service features designed to help  disabled… Read More

March 29, 2019 @ 4:44 am By Cali Haan  |  

61 people have been arrested and 50 Darknet accounts shut down following a joint operation against Dark Net opioid markets executed by J-CODE, the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement team. According to an FBI press release, the arrests were made as part of Operation… Read More

March 28, 2019 @ 1:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A hacker has been bragging on the Dark Net that he or she siphoned 200 bitcoins ($760 000 USD) from Dark Net websites by using an impersonation scam known as “typo-squatting,” cybersecurity firm Digital Shadows reports. On the Dark Net, “Typo-squatting” involves subtle alphanumeric bait-and-switch… Read More

February 22, 2019 @ 8:10 am By Cali Haan  |  

UK auction house Wilson’s Auctions will be selling 215 Bitcoins, Bitcoin Gold “coins” and Bitcoin Cash “coins” in a 24-hour Timed Online Auction starting February 28th. According to the firm, the coins (104.99 of each), “were seized by the Belgium police as a result of a… Read More

February 17, 2019 @ 1:48 pm By Cali Haan  |  

A hacker that posted 620 million individual’s data for sale earlier this week on the Dark Net marketplace “Dream Market” has now added the private data of an additional 127 million people, including 450 000 users of the Israel-based crypto exchange, Coinmama, TechCrunch reports. The… Read More

February 3, 2019 @ 12:08 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Oakland, California resident Sandford Bemi Faison is being held on charges alleging he tried to buy a toxic chemical on the Dark Net in order to poison his estranged spouse, The Los Angeles Times reports. The intended victim is also the mother of the accused’s two… Read More

January 31, 2019 @ 2:45 am By Cali Haan  |  

A nurse from Rancho Cordova, California, has been arrested by federal agents in the US and charged with conspiracy and distribution of fentanyl for allegedly selling more than 20 ooo prescription opioid pills and patches over the Dark Net for bitcoins, The Sacramento Bee reports…. Read More

January 20, 2019 @ 10:00 am By Cali Haan  |  

An average of $2 million USD in Bitcoins per day is still flowing into Dark Net markets, despite an 80% price slump and the mid-2017 shuttering of Alpha Bay and Hansa, two popular Dark marketplaces, Reuters reports. Reuters says that flow represents a doubling of… Read More

December 10, 2018 @ 10:15 am By Cali Haan  |  

A Mormon grandfather in Utah has just published a memoire detailing his involvement with and the subsequent take down of notorious Dark Net marketplace Silk Road, KSL reports. The book, called Silk Road Takedown, is a saga of drugs, faked beatings and corrupt officers that may… Read More

June 30, 2018 @ 12:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Ross Ulbricht has been denied his last chance to appeal the sentence of double life plus forty years (with no chance of parole) he received after being convicted of running the “Silk Road” illicit online marketplace in 2015. The decision to deny the request was… Read More

June 30, 2018 @ 10:59 am By Cali Haan  |  

The American Department of Justice (DOJ) announced June 26th that its “First Nationwide Undercover Operation Targeting Darknet Vendors” has resulted in the arrest and charge of 35 individuals accused of selling illicit goods in the Internet underworld. The comprehensive, inter-agency dragnet also seized guns, drugs,… Read More