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Read more - Cyberbunker leaders face prison as appeal falls flat
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…

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Read more - German hosting stored in NATO bunker confronts TornadoCash-like verdict
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…

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Read more - Nevada woman prisoned for murder attempt through dark web
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…

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Read more - US man imprisoned after paying bitcoin to eliminate child he molested
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…

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Read more - 100k OpenAI credentials on sale for crypto
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.

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Read more - Monopoly darknet market admin indicted in US
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…

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Read more - Man gathering crypto for monkey torture is among 20 investigated in international action
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…

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Read more - Monkey torture videos sold for crypto in online community
Mr. Ape, an online pseudonym, has recently come under scrutiny for crowdfunding the acquisition of deeply disturbing videos featuring the torture of monkeys using crypto to buy the videos.

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Read more - Scottish man imprisoned for buying firearm with crypto on deep web
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.

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Read more - Deep web darknet market administrator pleads guilty in US
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…

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Read more - Darknet markets blackmailed by hacker with DDoS attacks
Deep web news source Darknetlive reported that the person or organization routinely performing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against darknet black markets.

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Read more - Top darknet resource likely served a subpoena: the canary stopped singing
Darknetlive — recognized as one of the top resources for darknet users by the FBI, Europol and the Australian Institute of Criminology — has most likely been served a subpoena. Darknetlive — a website with a presence on both the…

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Read more - Sites selling child abuse material for crypto taken down
An international investigation took down two communities and one crypto-powered market dedicated to exchanging child sexual abuse material on the deep web. An international joint investigation led by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) and Central Office for Combating Internet…

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Read more - Hacked user data sold for $140M of crypto in 8 months
Research shows that vendors on the darknet got at least $140 million in revenue in 2020-2021 by selling hacked data products. Recent research by The Conversation reveals that from Sep. 1, 2020, through Apr. 30, 2021, 2,158 vendors advertised at least one…

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Read more - German imprisoned for attempting to hire hitman online with Bitcoin
The Berlin district court sentenced a man to prison time for repeated attempts to hire a hitman by paying with Bitcoin (BTC) on the deep web.

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Read more - 487 million WhatsApp phone numbers to be auctioned in the Dark Web
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao revealed in a tweet that another 487 million WhatsApp phone numbers would be auctioned on the Dark Web.