Xuzhou Procuratorate's year-end summary points to "'Tea-horse Ancient Road' dark web trading market case and a number of key cases", and with the "Tea-horse Ancient Road" dark web trading market website screenshots, enough to prove that the "Tea-horse Ancient Road" dark web trading market has been cracked down on by the police and transferred to the procuratorial authorities to accept the review and prosecution.

Police crackdown and "exit scams" are the main reasons for the closure of dark web marketplaces. "Under the Dark Web/AWX" counts down the Chinese dark web marketplaces that will die in 2021.

A special team of Delhi Police recently arrested six people in a crackdown on exam cheating in Mumbai, Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan. The criminal gang advertised on the dark web to attract candidates to pay high fees and used hacking to get them to pass the exams.

Vienna drug investigators have arrested five suspects for trafficking marijuana on the dark web. They had grown marijuana in five locations in eastern Austria and sent it by mail.

In 2022 the Tor Project will improve the Tor daemon code, improve congestion control on the Tor network, further improve the user experience, and will also work to improve the experience for mobile users.

A ransomware group that stole some confidential information held by the British police used "phishing" to attack an IT company serving the police, demanding ransom from the IT company called Dacoll.

For the first time, operators of dark web data centers were convicted of making illegal operations in the network possible in the first place. However, they were acquitted of charges of aiding and abetting some 250,000 crimes on the site.

In recent years, Russia has been steadily pushing for more Internet censorship, requiring foreign tech giants to open representative offices in the country and store data on local servers, and banning several VPNs in addition to blocking Tor.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler said, "This grant provides our Cyber Crime Unit with the resources necessary to help stop counterfeit goods from entering the Portland marketplace."

Video clips taken from thousands of hacked "smart home" cameras showing victims naked and even having sex are being sold online.