Investigations in the aftermath of the recent terror attack in Munich which saw nine people killed in a Munich shopping center on Friday will now see darknet markets under the scanner. Speaking to journalists today, Holger Muench, the chief of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (also known as Bundeskriminalamt or BKA), has stated that the emergence […] The post Darknet Investigations Now a Priority, Says German Federal Police Chief appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

The dark web is not nearly as social a place as the world wide web, researchers find. Researchers recently conducted a comprehensive charting of the dark web, starting with the central hubs of “.Onion” domains, and created an algorithm to scan links from each site. They found 7,178 sites. 25,104 links connected all of these […] The post The Dark Web is More Like a Set of Dark Silos appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

Police charged a Cottage Grove, Minn. man with second-degree intentional murder for killing his wife, linking him to a Dark Web plot to pay for her murder before poisoning and shooting her and staging the death as a suicide, according to the South Washington County Bulletin in Cottage Grove, Minn.   Bail was set at […] The post Minnesota Murder Plot Leads to Dark Web Investigation appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

The Dutch public prosecution office is looking at three pending cases involving the digital currency bitcoin and money laundering in 2017. In a report from Financieele Dagblad, a Dutch daily newspaper, the public prosecution department is aiming to tackle money laundering by cracking down on the issue that the country is facing. The first case […] The post Dutch Public Prosecutor to Tackle Bitcoin-based Money Laundering appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

Ross Ulbricht was allegedly the man behind the notorious dark web Marketplace Silk Road. CCN reported when his trial begun back in 2015, and when it led to a sentence of life in prison as he was convicted of owning the “Dread Pirate Roberts” (DRP) account in the marketplace. According to Motherboard, Ross’ attorneys claim […] The post Someone Used Silk Road’s Admin Account after Ross Ulbricht’s Arrest appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

By CCN: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has busted several people accused of running the Deep Dot Web, a website that provides access to illegal dark web marketplaces and websites. According to several reports, the feds worked in partnership with Europol and law enforcement authorities in Germany and the Netherlands over a period of […] The post FBI Dismantles Deep Dot Web in Seismic Dark Market Platform Bust appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

By CCN: It appears safety standards for criminals on the dark web are shrinking quickly. Following a series of raids in both Germany and the United States, American and European officials have succeeded in taking down what they call one of the world’s “largest online criminal trafficking operations.” The problem is it took authorities two […] The post Blockchain-Challenged Authorities Take Down Crypto’s Largest Dark Web appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

By CCN.com: Just one month after a coordinated global law enforcement operation executed a sweeping takedown of dark web drug dealers, rumors are swirling that a popular dark-net market has allegedly attempted a major exit scam. According to a thread on the Dread Forum, a Reddit-like website for dark web users, Wall Street Market (WSM) […] The post Exit Scam: Suspicion Grows Over Dark-Web Market’s $30 Million Crypto Theft appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

By CCN.com: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicted three men for allegedly laundering $2.3 million in crypto by using debit cards pre-loaded with bitcoin and withdrawing large amounts of cash at ATMs in New York and New Jersey. The trio was also charged with operating bogus storefronts on the dark web that sold illegal drugs, […] The post Manhattan DA Indicts Dark Web Drug Dealers for Laundering $2.3 Million in Bitcoin appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more

By CCN.com: As CCN previously reported, Canadian Matthew Phan has been fighting to keep his cryptocurrency holdings out of the hands of the government after his arrest in 2015 and subsequent conviction. Phan’s argument was tenuous: he argued that not all of his crypto stash came from drug sales and that he should be allowed […] The post Canada Orders Convicted Dark Web Narcotrafficker to Forfeit $1.8 Million in Bitcoin appeared first on CCN Markets ..read more