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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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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