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The overall proportion of total illicit crypto funds is shrinking by 9% on a year-on-year basis, although bad actors still handled over $34 billion in 2023. The total volume of illicit crypto funds decreased by nearly one-third in 2023, according…

Although darknet markets are far from 2021 levels, their crypto revenue has slightly rebounded since Hydra’s closure in 2022, analysts found. Darknet markets continue to show signs of recovery as their crypto revenue saw a rise in 2023 despite the…

Silk Road drug lord, who was extradited from the U.K., admits to operating an illicit drug network and surrenders $150 million in crypto. 

Illicit cryptocurrency addresses received $24.2 billion in 2023, showing a decrease from the estimated $39.6 billion in 2022, as per Chainalysis. In 2023, the value received by illicit crypto totaled $24.2 billion representing nearly a 39% decrease from the 2022…

A $144 million Bitcoin transaction has been uncovered linked to the defunct Abraxas darknet market, which shut down in 2015.

The founder of one of the largest darknet platforms, Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, has spent 10 years behind bars.

A German court rejected the appeal against the hefty sentences given to the management of Cyberbunker for hosting deep web black markets on their servers. The German Federal Court of Justice largely upheld the defendants’ convictions in the so-called “Cyberbunker…

CyberBunker, a German web hosting firm previously housed in a NATO bunker, appeals its controversial conviction for facilitating illicit transactions. Back in December 2021, eight people involved with Cyberbunker were sentenced despite the prosecutors being unable to prove that they…

Nevada woman is imprisoned for masterminding a scheme to kill her former husband. She was attempting to pay a hitman with crypto. Kristy Lynn Felkins, aged 38, will spend five years behind bars. This judgment came after she confessed to…

A New Jersey resident, John Michael Musbach, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison following his attempt to hire a hitman via the dark web to assassinate a minor he had previously sexually exploited. The objective of this heinous…

In a startling revelation, Group-IB, a leading cybersecurity firm based in Singapore, has identified over 100,000 devices infected with stealer malware that contain saved ChatGPT credentials.

A citizen of Croatia and Serbia, suspected of establishing and managing the now-inoperative darknet marketplace Monopoly Market, has been indicted by a grand jury in the District of Columbia. 33-year-old Milomir Desnica is alleged to have operated Monopoly Market since…

A BBC investigation into the brutal abuse of monkeys has led to the investigation of at least 20 individuals, with the suspect list spanning from the UK to the US and Indonesia. The suspects, including a Wisconsin man known as…

In an incident revealing the nature of online crime, an individual named Robin Baxter was sentenced to over three years in prison after authorities foiled his attempts to procure a firearm and ammunition from the dark web.

Michael D. Mihalo, a 40-year-old US resident, pleaded guilty yesterday to leading a conspiracy that sold stolen financial information on the dark web, the Department of Justice announced on May 16. The dark web is a part of the internet…

Deep web news source Darknetlive reported that the person or organization routinely performing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against darknet black markets.