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Germany seizes $25 million in bitcoin as it shuts down a Russian-language darknet marketplace for illegal drugs
Roughly 17 million customers and more than 19,000 seller accounts were registered on the Hydra dark…
Carla Mozée
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Some of the biggest cryptocurrency HODLers are also crypto criminals, finds Chainalysis report
More than 4,000 of the biggest cryptocurrency accounts have gotten their tokens through illicit mea…
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Germany seizes $25 million in bitcoin by shutting down illegal darknet marketplace 'Hydra Market'
"Among other things, there is a suspicion of the commercial operation of criminal trading platforms…
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Bitcoin ‘mixing’ is getting a reputation for money laundering as another service admits to illegal activity
The man behind the Bitcoin mixing service Helix, Larry Deen Harmon, has pleaded guilty to charges o…
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UK spies believe the theory that COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab is 'plausible' and are trying to recruit darknet sources as they investigate it, says report
The theory that the coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan lab was initially dismissed, but intelligence a…
Tom Porter
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Since January, there's been a 300% spike in dark net ads for COVID vaccines, fake vaccine cards, and fake test results
Check Point Research found ads for products ranging from $25 negative coronavirus tests to $1,000 v…
Aleeya Mayo
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Suspected darknet drug dealers stand accused of hiding a huge stash of Bitcoin that's now worth $16 million. They bought a fishing boat and a squid permit to conceal their crime, say US attorneys.
A federal judge issued a warrant for seizure of about 392 Bitcoin worth $16 million, which attorney…
Kevin Shalvey
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Darknet drugs racket: NCB widens probe, arrests 3 more from Nagpur
The agency said it has arrested Nagpur-based Sachin Makade (33), who holds a diploma in pharmacy; …
PTI
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Redditor finds Aadhaar, PAN and passports of many Indians freely available on Google; raises concerns over data security
A simple search query like "index of Aadhaar card" will reveal sensitive pages that should have be…
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Five incidents of data breach reported in FY25, two in FY24: MoS Communications
The cause of the data breach has not been established in the said instances, hence, no action was t…
PTI
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Pan-India drug trafficking cartel using cryptocurrency through dark net busted
The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has arrested six people, including a girl, a student of a privat…
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A dark web drug trafficker gave the FBI a roadmap to his clients after they found his journal in a trash can. It was labeled 'Please Don't Touch!'
The FBI was investigating a vendor selling oxycodone pills on the darknet under several monikers, i…
Lloyd Lee
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A mom accused of selling drugs on the dark web says she wasn't running drugs but was instead conducting research for a screenplay, court documents show
FBI agents accused a family of selling counterfeit drugs on the dark web. One of the defendants is …
Lloyd Lee
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Bitcoin thief who stole $5 million of the crypto and posed in a dollar-filled bathtub sentenced to 4 years in prison
Gary Harmon pled guilty to stealing 713 bitcoin in January. Law enforcement agents found a photo on…
George Glover
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This new Android malware sits silently on your phone to remotely take control of your device
Octo has advanced remote access capabilities powered by a live streaming module that is update…
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Binance named as the top handler of bitcoin from crypto exchange charged in $700 million drug-dealer darkweb bust
Binance was the top receiver of bitcoin from Bitzlato, a crypto exchange shut down by the DOJ and a…
George Glover
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The Justice Department said that it seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin stolen a decade ago through the 'Silk Road' dark web
The Justice Department said Monday that it seized the bitcoin from a 32-year-old man in Georgia who…
Lakshmi Varanasi
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WhatsApp now a spam factory, 1 in 2 Indian swamped with promotional messages: report
Meta-owned WhatsApp has become a spam factory as more than one in two Indians now say that they are…
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One of the world's biggest crypto exchanges agrees to pay $100 million and block US users as part of a legal settlement
BitMEX has neither admitted nor denied the allegations and said that it is "committed to becoming a…
Ethan Wu
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After Coinbase disables UPI payments, CoinSwitch Kuber halts rupee deposits
CoinSwitch Kuber, the popular crypto trading platform has completely halted rupee deposits on its p…