Finnish Authorities Seized Sipulimarket
Finnish Customs, in conjunction with Europol and Polish authorities, seized the last Finnish language darkweb market.On December 11, Finnish Customs (Tulli) shut down the last darkweb market for Tor...
HugBunter is Requesting Proof-of-Life from Onion Service Admins
The administrator of the largest darkweb forum, Dread, is requesting proof-of-life messages from the administrators of markets, forums, and other onion services.HugBunter, the owner and administrator of Dread, is...
Prolific Marijuana Vendor Indicted in Germany
The Bamberg Public Prosecutor’s Office filed charges against the three alleged operators the darkweb vendor account “LenasBioLaden” or “Lena’s Bio Laden.” All three suspected operators of the shop are...
Someone Moved $1b in Bitcoins From the Silk Road
Someone transferred 69,370 Bitcoins, worth about one billion dollars, from a wallet associated with the Silk Road darkweb marketplace.According to a report from the blockchain intelligence firm CipherTrace, 69,370...
~Shabang~ Sentenced to Eight Months in Prison
A District Court judge sentenced Michael Weigand, known as “~Shabang~” on the Silk Road darkweb market, to eight months in prison for lying providing technical assistance to the administrators...
US financial watchdog fines early Bitcoin mixer $60M for money laundering
The founder and operator of some of the first "mixing" services in crypto will have to cough up $60 million to United States regulators, even as he faces continued...
USPS and Customs are Failing to Comply with Opioid Trafficking Laws
Some of the laws in place to prevent international opioid trafficking are not being enforced by the United States Postal Service or Customs and Border Protection, members of the...
4% of crypto whales are criminals, and they hold $25B among them: Chainalysis
Chainalysis data shows that 4,068 criminal whales (roughly 4% of all whales) are hodling more than $25 billion worth of cryptocurrency among them. The blockchain analytics firm defines criminal whales...
German Police Seized Nine Telegram-Based Drug Markets
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the General Public Prosecutor’s Office in Frankfurt am Main and Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT), and other law enforcement agencies seized...
SEC issues first ever charges over phoney ‘insider information’ on darknet
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced charges against California resident James Roland Jones in the first-ever enforcement action from the commission to target securities fraud on the...
