Abacus Market, the largest Bitcoin [BTC] -driven darknet marketplace in the Western world, has abruptly gone dark, bringing about suspicions of a major exit scam. After dominating the ecosystem with ...

U.S. and German officials said Tuesday that an international law-enforcement effort had shut down the world’s largest “darknet” marketplace, saying Hydra Market had facilitated ransomware ...

AlphaBay OG announces comeback AlphaBay started in 2014 and it became the largest darknet market. The business ended when law enforcement took it down on July 5, 2017.

Hydra Market's sales were over 1 billion euros in 2020 alone, authorities say. German authorities took down the world’s largest illegal marketplace on the darknet with the help of U.S. law ...

Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.S., German, Dutch and ...

ATLANTA – A man who worked as a spokesman for a "darknet" marketplace used for illegal online sales has been sentenced in Atlanta to serve nearly four years in federal prison. Ronald L. Wheeler ...

The U.S. Justice Department says data gleaned after the 2019 Wall Street Market and 2017 AlphaBay forum takedowns was used to help track down those arrested Tuesday. "Darknet vendor accounts were ...

In 2021, Hydra accounted for about 80% of all darknet market-related cryptocurrency transactions, and since 2015, it has received approximately $5.2 billion in cryptocurrency, according to the ...

“Darknet market activity has been remarkably resilient over the last few years, despite continued efforts by law enforcement to shut down illicit activities,” Chainalysis writes in its report. “When ...

Finance Russia's Largest Darknet Market Is Hawking an ICO to Fund Global Expansion Here’s one token sale that’s almost certainly illegal, and not just under securities laws.

The darknet black market scene was set back when US law enforcement took down Silk Road, by far the largest site, and arrested its alleged owner. Other sites, including a successor to Silk Road ...