BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Tuesday that they have taken down what they believe was the biggest illegal marketplace on the darknet market and arrested its suspected operator. The site, known as DarkMarket, was shut down on Monday, darkmarket list prosecutors in the southwestern city of Koblenz said.All sorts of drugs, forged money, stolen or forged credit cards, … [Read more...]

Footage has emerged of the inside of a five-storey abandoned underground NATO bunker built with 31inch thick concrete walls in Germany allegedly converted by criminal gangs into a high tech data centre to host darknet market websites. An Australian man was arrested on Monday accused of running a $220million illegal darkweb marketplace - called the biggest in the world and ' for … [Read more...]

BERLIN, May 3 (Reuters) - German police have uncovered one of the world's largest underground darknet websites for child pornography with more than 400,000 users and arrested four people connected to the platform, prosecutors said on Monday. The "BOYSTOWN" platform has existed since at least June 2019 and was only accessible via the so-called Alphabay darknet Url, the Frankfurt … [Read more...]

By Sarah N. Lynch and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The FBI arrested a husband and wife on Tuesday morning, alleging they conspired to launder cryptocurrency stolen from the 2016 hack of virtual currency exchange Bitfinex, and said law enforcement has already seized over $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency tied to the hack. The action represents the Justice … [Read more...]

By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The kingpin or kingpins of the world's biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters. The "Joker's Stash" marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data traded hands for … [Read more...]