The FBI uncovered clues to the plot through an online chat room conversation on the Dark Web, where the young man, born in Battaglia, said he wanted to commit a terrorist act in Portugal. The Portuguese police were then notified.

The dark web marketplace is still a very lucrative industry, if ever there was one, and the retirement of those who came before can give current operators the confidence that they can run a successful marketplace and make their fortune - without getting arrested.

Europe's largest car importer, Swiss group Emil Frey, has fallen victim to a cyber attack. The data was found on the dark web and apparently customers in Switzerland and Germany were affected.

GPU-based Tor v3 vanity URL generator, developed using the Rust language and designed to run on NVIDIA GPUs, generates custom prefixed Vanity v3 hidden service onion addresses.

A 41-year-old man from Delfzijl was sentenced to six months in prison, half of which was suspended, for trying to buy a gun while the police pretended to be the seller.

According to Trustwave SpiderLabs, members of the underground forum believe their countries are no longer safe havens and fear arrest. Some have suggested moving their ransomware operations to India, China, the Middle East or Israel.

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.