Crypto crime hit record $14 billion in 2021, research shows
By Tom Wilson LONDON, dark market 2024 Jan 6 (Reuters) - Crime involving cryptocurrencies hit an all-time high of $14 billion last year, blockchain researcher Chainalysis said on Thursday, a record t ...
Child porn purveyor to get 21-27 years under new plea deal
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A man whom U.S. authorities have described as the world´s largest purveyor darknet market marketplace of child pornography would be sentenced to 21 to 27 years in prison unde ...
Four paedophiles jailed in Germany for raping boys in garden shed
Adrian V., 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, led the sexual abuse from a shed belonging to his mother - who fetched the men breakfast as they assaulted the victimsFour paedophiles have bee ...
Irish health system struggling to recover from cyberattack
LONDON (AP) - Ireland´s health system was still struggling to restore its computers and treat patients on Tuesday, four days after it shut down its entire IT system in response to a cyberattack. Thous ...
First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> A government shutdown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and H ...
Chinese crypto addresses sent $2.2 bln to scams, darknets in…
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and dar ...
First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> A government shutdown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and H ...
Crypto money laundering rises 30% in 2021 -Chainalysis
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Cybercriminals laundered $8.6 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, up 30% from 2020, according to a report from blockchain analysis firm Chai ...
US sanctions crypto exchange over ransomware ties
Washington has announced sanctions against a cryptocurrency exchange it says has worked with ransomware attackers The United States imposed sanctions Tuesday on cryptocurrency exchange SUEX for its t ...
Cross-border drug trafficking cases nearly doubled in four years…
THE HAGUE, April 19 (Reuters) - The number of cross-border drug trafficking cases referred to the European agency for prosecutorial cooperation nearly doubled in four years to 562 in 2020, dark web l ...