A Russian-language marketplace on the Dark Web. Launched in 2015, Hydra Market sold illegal drugs, hacker services and cryptocurrency tumbling, the latter used to help launder money. In 2022 ...

Related: Russia sentences Hydra market founder to life in prison At the same time, Western darknet marketplaces struggled under increased enforcement and operational instability. In a March 4 blog ...

Russian-language darknet marketplaces have strengthened their dominance and account for over 97% of cryptocurrency-enabled sales volume.

Hydra accounted for 75 percent of sales in the global darknet market in 2020, the report said. The US Treasury said Hydra's revenue passed $1.3 billion in 2020. "Hydra is a big driver of Eastern ...

Germany has shut down the Russian illegal darknet marketplace called ' Hydra Market', confiscating 543 Bitcoins with a total value of around $25.2 million. The authorities shut down the server ...