U.S. intelligence informed the Portuguese government of the situation last week through the embassy in Lisbon, reportedly communicating directly with Prime Minister Antonio Costa in August, according to Portuguese newspaper Diario de Noticias.

In 2020, Tor co-founder Nick Mathewson began work on a version of Rust Tor, then renamed Arti as the official version of Tor, which has gone through several beta releases and has now finally reached the milestone of 1.0.0.

An assessment of secure data carriers and shipping materials indicated that the arrestee had been active as a so-called "dark web vendor" for several months. The 25-year-old ran a thriving Internet business on the dark web - selling amphetamines, cocaine, marijuana and hashish.

REvil claims to have stolen a variety of different data from Midea, including its product lifecycle management (PLM) system - containing blueprints and firmware source code - as well as financial information intended for sale.

The alleged Dark Web leak was of documents belonging to EU defense dealers, including those related to weapons used by Ukraine in its war with Russia.

Cocorico Market is a French version of a small dark web marketplace, founded in 2021, with support for switching between English and French for browsing. The bottom of the site shows 33 active suppliers and 509 active buyer customers, with 1,187 successful order sales already made.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio, Smith "purchased more than 600 stolen debit and credit card accounts from the dark web, affecting victims in 25 states."

The ransomware group BlackCat is a hacking group with ties to Russia. However, it is not known who exactly is behind it. On the Internet, you can find various cyber attacks BlackCat has been involved in and where ransoms have been demanded.

The current LockBit ransomware gang, still unable to resist the DDoS attack on their dark web site, has temporarily placed a message on one of their Tor domains seeking BT seed upload points.

One of the main reasons for the harm reduction program is to help determine which suppliers are prone to adulterate their products with fentanyl, DeSnake said. Going forward, the professional drug inspector program is an important part of a broader vision of a decentralized marketplace network.