Blockchain analytics provider Elliptic revealed that the four Russian sites earned a total of about $263 million in digital assets through illegal transactions. The three most commonly used cryptocurrencies are bitcoin (BTC), ethereum (ETH) and litecoin (LTC).

HaoYu Wang, 26, who is from China but attended the University of Utah, was booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on suspicion of murder, according to an arrest statement. Wang told police he bought heroin and fentanyl on the dark Web and that the couple intended to kill themselves together.

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.