Last week, the FBI joined a number of other U.S. law enforcement agencies in Operation Hyperion, a successful international action aimed at disrupting the operations and infrastructure of illicit ...

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Monero hides sender, receiver and amount on every transaction. How ring signatures, stealth addresses and RingCT work, and ...

Darknet. It sounds scary and it kind of is. This shadowy and obscure corner of the internet is often used by ordinary citizens and whistleblowers to protect their privacy rights. However, the privacy ...

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In June 2025, police in Europe shut down a darknet marketplace for drugs called Archetyp Market, which had more than 600,000 users, and the following month the FBI announced that Operation Grayskull ...

If you wanted to buy contraband online in the last five years or so, you may have noticed that the option to pay in bitcoin — once the most popular form of payment on darknet markets — is slowly ...

Shutdown of the once-dominant darknet marketplace Hydra in 2022 changed the market for drugs and other illicit goods. According to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, blockchain data shows many of ...

WASHINGTON – A globally coordinated law enforcement action against the buyers and sellers of illicit drugs and other illegal activities using Darknet global marketplaces was conducted Oct. 22 to 28.

Darknet drug dealers learned a hard lesson today after the administrators of Evolution, a popular market, made off with all their Bitcoin in an apparent heist that will likely net millions of dollars: ...

Teens can easily access the darknet and if they do they risk entering into a world of porn, drugs, fake ids, guns, and many other hidden dangers. This part of the Internet is a portal into a world in ...