German police shutter 'world's largest darknet marketplace'

guest · Jan 12, 2021

German police shutter 'world's largest darknet marketplace'
January 12, 2021
https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/german-police-shutter-worlds-largest-darknet-marketplace

A German-led police operation has taken down the "world's largest" darknet marketplace, whose Australian alleged operator used it to facilitate the sale of drugs, stolen credit card data and malware, prosecutors said Tuesday.

At the time of its closure, DarkMarket had nearly 500,000 users and more than 2,400 vendors worldwide, as the coronavirus pandemic leads much of the street trade in narcotics to go online.

Police in the northern city of Oldenburg "were able to arrest the alleged operator of the suspected world's largest illegal marketplace on the darknet, the DarkMarket, at the weekend," prosecutors said in a statement.

"Investigators were able to shut down the marketplace and turn off the server on Monday," they added, calling it the culmination of a monthslong international law enforcement operation.
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The German prosecutors said DarkMarket came to light in the course of a major investigation against the Dutch web-hosting service Cyberbunker, which is accused of being a haven for cybercrime and spam. German authorities said Cyberbunker hosted DarkMarket for an unspecified time.
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FanJ · Jan 12, 2021

Europol Press Release - 12 January 2021
DarkMarket: world's largest illegal dark web marketplace taken down
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsr...rgest-illegal-dark-web-marketplace-taken-down

DarkMarket, the world's largest illegal marketplace on the dark web, has been taken offline in an international operation involving Germany, Australia, Denmark, Moldova, Ukraine, the United Kingdom (the National Crime Agency), and the USA (DEA, FBI, and IRS). Europol supported the takedown with specialist operational analysis and coordinated the cross-border collaborative effort of the countries involved.
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DarkMarket in figures:
almost 500 000 users;
more than 2 400 sellers;
over 320 000 transactions;
more than 4 650 bitcoin and 12 800 monero transferred.
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At the current rate, this corresponds to a sum of more than €140 million. The vendors on the marketplace mainly traded all kinds of drugs and sold counterfeit money, stolen or counterfeit credit card details, anonymous SIM cards and malware.
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guest · Oct 26, 2021

Police arrest 150 dark web vendors of illegal drugs and guns
October 26, 2021
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...0-dark-web-vendors-of-illegal-drugs-and-guns/

Law enforcement authorities arrested 150 suspects allegedly involved in selling and buying illicit goods on DarkMarket, the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web when it was taken down in January 2021.

"At the time, German authorities arrested the marketplace’s alleged operator and seized the criminal infrastructure, providing investigators across the world with a trove of evidence," the Europol said today.
"Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) has since been compiling intelligence packages to identify the key targets."
The arrests are the result of a coordinated international operation dubbed Dark HunTOR that lasted ten months and involved police forces and investigators from nine countries.
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Italian dark web marketplaces also taken down
Italian authorities also shut down the Berlusconi and DeepSea dark web marketplaces as part of the same operation, arresting four administrators and seizing €3.6 million in cryptocurrencies. Together, these two marketplaces had over 100,000 illegal products up for sale.

"The point of operations such as the one today is to put criminals operating on the dark web on notice: the law enforcement community has the means and global partnerships to unmask them and hold them accountable for their illegal activities, even in areas of the dark web," said Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, Europol's Deputy Executive Director of Operations.
"The FBI continues to identify and bring to justice drug dealers who believe they can hide their illegal activity through the Darknet," added FBI Director Christopher A. Wray.
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FanJ · Oct 27, 2021

mood said: ↑

Police arrest 150 dark web vendors of illegal drugs and guns
October 26, 2021
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...0-dark-web-vendors-of-illegal-drugs-and-guns/
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Europol Press Release - 26 October 2021
https://www.europol.europa.eu/newsr...n-dark-web-drug-bust-police-seize-€26-million

Police forces across the world have arrested 150 alleged suspects involved in buying or selling illicit goods on the dark web as part of a coordinated international operation involving nine countries.
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This operation, known as Dark HunTOR, was composed of a series of separate but complementary actions in Australia, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States, with coordination efforts led by Europol and Eurojust.
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