NEW YORK – Alleged Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht was convicted of drug conspiracy and other charges Wednesday for allegedly founding and running the drug-trafficking site that ...

Federal agents arrested a San Francisco man they say resurrected and operated the dark Web online drug bazaar "Silk Road" that generated $8 million in monthly sales and attracted 150,000 vendors ...

You may have heard of Silk Road, an online marketplace that enabled hard-to-trace buying and selling of illegal goods. The court says it was "as if the purchases were ...

The mysterious creator of Bitcoin has a strong connection with the founder of the Silk Road, according to computer researchers. The founder of the online black market Silk Road and the creator of ...

Not so long ago, the Silk Road was not only a bustling black market for drugs but a living representation of every cryptoanarchist’s dream: a trusted trading ground on the Internet where neither ...

Kate joined Newsweek in May 2024. She is a graduate of Ithaca College. Trump, who first proposed to pardon the Silk Road creator during his 2024 presidential campaign, announced his clemency on ...

Nearly ten years ago, the sprawling dark-web drug market known as the Silk Road was torn offline in a law enforcement operation coordinated by the FBI, whose agents arrested the black market's ...

The e-commerce website Silk Road is being called the Amazon.com of illegal drugs. The goods it sells include cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana. The products are delivered through regular mail ...

Scientists have gained new insight into the Silk Road through the discovery of two abandoned cities. Located in southeastern Uzbekistan, the cities were likely large urban centers that now point ...