A 38-year-old man from Dallas was charged by a federal jury last week on allegations of making fraudulent credit cards using information obtained from the dark web. Carlos M. Garza Junior would purchase the card details on the darknet then use the information to reproduce similar copies of the cards using a magnetic encoder. Garza’s arrest came on May 15 ... Read More »
Two men were sentenced in the Hartford Federal Court for their roles in the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit Xanax and anabolic steroids via the dark web. One of the men believed to be the mastermind of the entire operation was sentenced to 20 months in prison while his accomplice was given a 3-year probation sentence. The pair allegedly admitted ... Read More »
The government of Ontario, through its attorney general, is looking to acquire a forfeiture order against 288 bitcoins seized in the first bitcoin seizure ever by Canadian law enforcement. The bitcoins in question were seized from a dark web drug dealer in 2015. The bitcoin was seized following the dealer’s arrest after his attempt to purchase a Glock through the ... Read More »
Black hat hackers on the dark web are mostly on the borderline between being online libertarians and cybercriminals. Apart from the debate over their rightfulness, it is inarguable that it is highly important to thoroughly understand the organizational workings within their online communities. A recently published paper conducted a study of a black-hat hacker forum hosted as a Tor hidden ... Read More »
The anonymous nature of the dark web has qualified it to be an ideal place for undergoing various forms of illegal activities. The Tor network enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to launch a website, or a “hidden service,” in a totally anonymous manner. Tor hidden services enable the hosting of illicit darknet marketplaces, or cryptomarkets, which facilitate the trading ... Read More »
Montray King has been sentenced to four and a half years in prison for the illegal possession of a firearm and fraud with identification documents. According to a report, King was earlier given a two-year probationary term after being charged for involvement in drugs and instigating a police chase. However, just ten days into his probationary term, he committed another ... Read More »
A man and two women were arrested for allegedly distributing drugs all over Australia through the dark web and the Australian post. The three are believed to have sold drugs worth over $17 million and to have established themselves as the largest dark web drug vendor in Australia over time. The man allegedly led the group and had a vendor’s ... Read More »
The admin to what was once the largest Finnish dark web marketplace was sentenced to 40 months in prison after a court found him guilty of facilitating drug trafficking through his site. The 45-year-old IT expert is believed to have been responsible for the creation and maintenance of the dark web site, Sipulikanava, from March 2014 to 2017. The site ... Read More »
A male resident of West Plymouth, England, was arrested on February 7 for allegedly importing illegal drugs from Columbia via the darknet. He was charged with drug trafficking a variety of controlled drugs, including oxycodone and heroin. The 29-year-old man named Andrew King would purchase the drugs from dark web markets after which they would be delivered to his home ... Read More »
A 23-year-old man from Napier, New Zealand, was sentenced to home detention after he was found guilty of three counts of importing ecstasy ordered through the dark web. Like the majority of those who purchase illicit items through the dark web, he was arrested after customs authorities intercepted two of his drug packages. He allegedly ordered the drugs on behalf ... Read More »
Benjamin Macias, 40, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for masterminding and running a large drug organization on the dark web. According to a report, the police went undercover on the dark web to lure the suspect into arrest. He was involved in drug distribution in the Sacramento area and had been a contributor to a drug overdose. ... Read More »
Twelve people were arrested in Europe on February 1st for an allegedly being part of a drug trafficking ring known as OCG. The Dutch-German group was primarily composed of people of Afghan and Dutch origin. Individuals in the group were deployed to various places and given various tasks to perform, a move which made it more difficult to track them ... Read More »
Rapid development in the security threat sectors produces uncertainty for security experts and IT professionals and can trigger changes to the security strategies adopted by various businesses, in order to predict future threats and minimize ambiguity. Security predictions can greatly reduce the economic impact of many security breaches that can affect both individuals as well as businesses. Every year, many ... Read More »
An Oregon man, who stabbed his biological mother 29 times when he was 16 years old, has opened up about his fraudulent credit card operations and why he led an international group to take advantage of the dark web. According to the report, he and his co-defendants managed to obtain 1160 credit card numbers from banks across Australia and Canada. ... Read More »
A 27-year-old woman from Mauston, Sauk County, is accused of using information sourced from the dark web in identity theft. The woman allegedly purchased credentials from the dark web to supplement information she stole from her victim’s mailboxes. She was placed in custody to await trial and was charged with two counts of credit card fraud and three separate counts ... Read More »
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