Bitcoin-powered darknet market Abacus has gone offline in a suspected exit scam, possibly prompted by law enforcement fears.

Abacus Market, once the biggest Bitcoin‑friendly dark web shop for Western buyers, vanished from the internet in July.

The platform was active on the darknet, a part of the internet accessible only through specialized tools that provide more anonymity. It was founded in 2021 and had more than 150,000 user accounts ...

Darknet markets are increasingly returning to bitcoin (BTC) as their primary cryptocurrency because of rising liquidity and accessibility challenges associated with privacy-focused coins like ...

The U.S. government has taken action against 49 cryptocurrency addresses linked to an illegal online marketplace called Nemesis. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of ...

In a significant move against illicit online marketplaces, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Behrouz Parsarad, the Iranian administrator ...

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency ...

He led a darknet drug trafficking market dubbed ‘rickandmortyshop.’ Now he’s going to prison The American flag flies outside the Justice Department in Washington in 2020.

Silk Road, which emerged in 2011, combined TOR and bitcoin to become the first known darknet market. The market was eventually seized in 2013, and the founder, Ross Ulbricht, ...