Five members of a nationwide criminal gang have been arrested in Moscow, Rostov, Astrakhan and Krasnodar regions, TASS news agency reports.

Chainalysis, the largest blockchain tracking company, owns and operates walletexplorer.com, a service that allows anyone to view the history of public cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and Chainalysis uses WalletExplorer to collect IP information about cryptocurrency users who visit the site.

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Cloudflare states that the hidden resolver is still an experimental service and should not be used in production or for other critical uses.

Ransomware gangs such as BlackMatter typically steal data from a company's network before encrypting it and then threatening to release the files online if the ransom used to decrypt them is not paid.

Part of the reason cybercriminals are transitioning from the dark web to Telegram is the anonymity offered by the encrypted chat tool, with links to Telegram groups or channels shared within dark web forums jumping from 172,035 the previous year to more than 1 million by 2021.

Eric Eoin Marques ran a network of dark web servers that hosted millions of images depicting child sexual abuse.

A few days before the president announced that all businesses with more than 100 employees must require vaccination, a fake vaccination card cost around US$100; the day after the announcement, the average price shot up to US$200.

The attackers' goal is not to compromise systems or demand ransoms, but to collect valuable information that they can later use or sell to others. A spokesman for the UN Secretary-General said the organisation was "a frequent target of cyber attacks".

Prosecutors said the couple was arrested in New Mexico two years ago after authorities discovered they were using the seedy dark web marketplaces Wall Street Market and Empire Market to market their illegal goods under the name "THEQUEENSHIVE".