In a significant cybercrime enforcement action, Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has successfully seized control of eXch, a prominent darknet marketplace specializing in illegal goods and services. According to an official statement on the BKA website, the operation culminated in tak...
How artificial intelligence succeeded where global law enforcement failed. For nearly three decades, Richard Burrows—an English boarding school teacher and scout leader—lived a quiet life in paradise. To his neighbors in Phuket, Thailand, he was just "Peter Smith," a friendly British ex...
On August 25, 2024, Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested by French authorities at Le Bourget Airport in Paris. This event has sparked widespread discussion and concern among Telegram's global user base and experts in cybersecurity and privacy. The arrest raises crucial question...
The owner and operator of Incognito Market, a dark web-based drug marketplace, was arrested at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on May 18. According to law enforcement officials, more than $100 million worth of drugs were sold through the marketplace, including significant amounts of methamphetam...
One of the world's largest criminal markets used by online fraudsters to buy passwords has been shut down in a global law enforcement operation. Genesis Market was selling logins, IP addresses and other data that made up the “digital fingerprint” of victims, allowing fraudsters to acces...
Darknet market's site delivers the bad news This was reported by the administrator of the Dread forum /u/Paris on December 18th at 22:37 UTC. Onion addresses of Kingdom Market show a message from the Federal Criminal Police of Germany (see screenshot). It is noteworthy that on December 16...