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 ...
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 of child pornography would be sentenced to 21 to 27 years in prison under the terms of a new plea de ...
'Crocodile of Wall Street' and husband are arrested in Bitcoin scheme
A married couple has been arrested and darkmarket list url charged with laundering billions in stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ...
Germany charges man who allegedly planned Hamburg attack
BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a man with plotting an Islamic extremist attack in the Hamburg area around the time of last year's 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 200 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Police bust one of the world's largest child pornography rings
German prosecutors say they have busted one of the world's biggest international darknet market platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members, including from the US, Au ...
Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared wit ...