A man who accessed the dark web and tried to purchase a three-year-old to use her as a sex slave has been sentenced to 5 years in prison in New Zealand. Aaron Hutton whose username was “Kiwipedo” was charged with attempting to join a deal involving using an under-18-year-old person for sexual exploitation. Besides this charge, the man was found guilty of owning 417 pieces of objectionable material. Aaron Hutton whose username was “Kiwipedo” was charged with attempting to join a deal involving using an under-18-year-old person for sexual exploitation. From January 13 to February 20, 2015, Hutto ..read more

According to a recent report from Chainalysis, Bitcoin’s use on the dark web largely on drugs and other crimes such as child porn, narcotics, is going to reach about $1 billion this year. However, the amount of Bitcoin spent on dark web had a surge two years ago (2017). Chainalysys specializes in helping companies to prevent illegal transactions and investigate cryptocurrency exchanges. The firm states that the overall percentage of Bitcoin transactions relating to illegal purchases in the online markets is declining. However, the amount of Bitcoin spent on dark web had a surge two years ago ..read more

It may not come as a surprise that dark web, an inaccessible network to the public, is a where illegal gun sales happen. Thomas Holt, the study’s co-author and the Michigan State University’s professor if criminal justice, spoke about this matter, “We know so little about the distribution of firearms sold on the dark web that it's kind of a black hole, similar to illicit pharmaceuticals and narcotics: We know people buy them online, but we don't know to what extent. The more we understand how guns move, how they are sold and what types of guns are available on the dark web, the more we'll unde ..read more

Last month, the hacker Gnosticplayers became well-known for stealing around one billion users data. Now, he made the story go trickier when putting these data for sale on the dark web. This seems to be a nightmare for attacked companies. Gnosticplayers is selling 2.6 Crore Users Data for 1.2431 bitcoin Nearly 850 million records of online users have been ready for purchase by Gnosticplayers on a dark web’s marketplace called Dream Market. Recently, he has added another batch of data records, with an estimated number of 26.42 million records, which came from the stolen data of six attacked comp ..read more

Maybe everyone knows about cybercrime and maybe we are the victims but we don’t know. But no one knows the value of the information and the personal data they steal from us. Cybercriminals sell information and data on the Dark Web for as little as $ 50 (3,500 rupees). The information from Internet users that can be stolen and sold are social media accounts, data from Spotify, Uber or Netflix, credit card and bank details, information from gaming websites or dating app, and even porn websites. You can not access the Dark Web without specific methods, software, or authorizations. The Dark Web (a ..read more