The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Monday said it seized 50,676 Bitcoin in November 2021 that was stolen in the 2012 hack of the now-defunct Silk Road dark web marketplace. The bitcoin, which was obtained in 2012 and valued at $3.36 billion when it was discovered last year, is now worth $1.04 billion. Additionally […]
German law enforcement has seized the servers propping up Hydra Market, allegedly the biggest marketplace on the dark web. In a press release, the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the platform had been taken down and $24.6 million-worth of bitcoin seized. No arrests have yet been […]
Russian citizen Kirill Victorovich Firsov will serve 30 months in prison for administrating an underground website that fueled the cybercriminal community for nearly seven years. According to a press release, the defunct platform DEER.IO hosted around 3,000 shops that sold stolen credit card information, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and services. The DOJ claimed this […]
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