U.S.-based Tor Project and Russian digital rights protection group RosKomSvoboda will appeal the recent decision to block their main website, TorProject.org, as well as key nodes, in court in Russia.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica Smolar told the court that Prihar and Phan helped sell illegal drugs, firearms and contraband to hundreds of thousands of users and earned millions of dollars in commissions.

The website domain name is sdklioxpbd7whqbvhnderrd3dz67rkmdpb4j533xtff34fonqrt4wxyd.onion, calling itself "Genuine Chinese Guaranteed Marketplace - a small high-end Chinese secure buying and selling platform Genuine Chinese Guaranteed The actual fraudulent website is a low-end scam that uses a lazy recharge. We are determined to expose it and ask our users to beware.

Scatchrad, who is unemployed, set up an account on TorMarket under the username "freshkiwiproduce" and advertises various drugs on the TorMarket marketplace, including MDMA, LSD, Viagra and Ritalin.

Law enforcement has taken action against the criminal misuse of VPN services. A large number of cybercriminals used VPN services provided by VPNLab.net, which police recently shut down. VPN providers' services, designed to provide shielded communications and Internet access, were used to support serious crimes such as ransomware deployments and other cybercriminal activities.

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.