Stopping cyberattacks. No human necessary

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> This is part of our  about how innovators are thinking up new ways to make you — and the world around you — smarter.  “Are you a hacker?” A Las Vegas driver asks me this after I tell him I’m headed to Defcon at Caesars Palace. I wonder if his sweat isn’t […]

Global Drug Survey reveals alcohol and drug habits during pandemic

Australians are officially the world’s biggest binge drinkers, but Britain and the US don’t lag far behind – featuring in the top five of the latest Global Drug Survey. Denmark and Finland ranked at second and third in the survey of more than 32,000 people from 22 countries which collected data from December 2020 to […]

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, partly driven by a huge increase in the production of synthetic drugs, darknet market markets 2024 the agency said. In a report published on Monday […]

Most weapons on the dark web come from US, study finds

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> US guns make up as much as 60 percent of the weapons on sale on the dark web, darknet market links new research has found. Related links Weapons, drugs and stolen identities are readily available on the dark web sites web, a . To investigate where guns, darknet market marketplace ammunition and […]

Inside busted illegal $220million darknet data centre

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 […]

Former Swiss police employee accused of selling weapons via darknet

ZURICH, April 8 (Reuters) – The former chief of logistics for a regional Swiss police force appeared in court on Thursday accused of falsely buying guns and darknet websites bullets on behalf of his employer and selling them via the darknet market. Prosecutors allege that the man, who has not been identified, ordered weaponry and […]

The history of hacking ransoms and cryptocurrency

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> Earlier this month, hundreds of companies from the US to Sweden were entangled in the , a company that offers network infrastructure to businesses around the world. The Kaseya hack comes on the heels of other headline-grabbing cyberattacks like the  and the . In each instance, criminals had the opportunity to make off with […]

'Crocodile of Wall St' and husband argue they are not a flight risk

A lawyer for the self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, and her husband Ilya ” Lichtenstein, 34, claim neither of them are ‘flight risks’ because Morgan has frozen embryos in the city. The couple’s lawyer, Samson Enzer, has urged a judge to allow them to be freed on $3million and $4.5million bail respectively, saying the […]

U.S. arrests couple for allegedly laundering $4.5 bln in crypto…

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, dark web market list darknet market 2024 and tor drug market said law enforcement has already seized […]

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 Hansa has merchants and consumers looking for a new home. Authorities , the largest online marketplace for illegal goods, on July 4, and took down Hansa, the third largest, on Thursday. The sites, where people could buy drugs, guns and child pornography, […]