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[Link] Police Shut Down ‘Hydra,’ One of the Largest Dark Web Marketplaces

Read: 6/4/2022 www.vice.com

On Tuesday, Germany’s Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) announced the operation in a press release where they called Hydra “the world’s largest illegal darknet marketplace,” according to a Google translation of the announcement.

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[Link] We Filmed at a Bitcoin Conference in 2013. Here's What Those People Are Doing Now

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

This article is a writeup of the first episode of CRYPTOLAND, Motherboard’s documentary series about how cryptocurrency is affecting culture, politics, the environment, and our shared future. Watch it on Motherboard’s YouTube.

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[Link] A third of all dark web domains are now v3 onion sites

Read: 25/11/2021 therecord.media

Throughout 2020 and 2021, the Tor anonymity network has gone through a major change as the Tor software team has released a new version of its software that updated how .onion domains look and work. More specifically, the Tor Project has done away with 16-character-long .

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[Link] Research Center: Limiting Anonymity Helps to Expose Terrorists (and Pirates)

Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

The International Center for Law and Economics believes that cloud hosting providers and related services should do more to deter illegal activity. Responding to an inquiry from the U.S.

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[Link] He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back

Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com

Just over four years ago, the US Department of Justice announced the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history.

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[Link] One of the World’s Most Wanted Pedophiles Has Been Arrested

Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com

One of the world’s most wanted pedophiles, who abused dozens of children between the ages of two and 16, has been captured and jailed for close to 50 years after Australian authorities tracked him down to a COVID-19 quarantine facility in Malaysia.

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[Link] New law passes giving AFP more power to infiltrate online criminal networks

Read: 25/8/2021 www.news.com.au

Police will have greater powers to infiltrate the dark web to crack down on paedophiles and criminals after a new law passed giving them amped-up surveillance capabilities online.

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[Link] Silk Road member Peter Nash avoids further US prison time

Read: 25/8/2021 www.smh.com.au

New York: An Australian man who moderated the discussion forums on the underground drug website Silk Road was sentenced to time served on Tuesday after already being in custody for 17 months.

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[Link] Suspected adviser to creator of black market Silk Road arrested in Thailand

Read: 24/8/2021 www.smh.com.au

New York: A Canadian man has been arrested in Thailand for his alleged role as a senior adviser to the creator of Silk Road, an online black market where illegal drugs and other goods were sold, US prosecutors announced on Friday.

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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia

Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au

They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.

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[Link] We Got the Phone the FBI Secretly Sold to Criminals

Read: 15/7/2021 www.vice.com

'Anom’ phones used in an FBI honeypot are mysteriously showing up on the secondary market. We bought one. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet. See More → The sleek, black phone seems perfectly normal.

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