After Russia's largest dark web marketplace, Hydra, was shut down a few days ago by German and U.S. police, there is speculation about who will be the next "leader" in the industry among the remaining dark web marketplaces.

The Chinese dark web marketplace "ChangAnBuYeCheng" was launched at the beginning of 2022, most probably relying on the advertisement of "onion666 dark web directory".But in just a few months, it has achieved a small popularity in the industry, which is very fast for a new dark web trading platform.

The German Federal Criminal Police Office said in a statement that the suspects are being investigated for "operating a criminal trading platform on the Internet in a commercial manner," selling drugs and other charges. The statement was titled "Shutting down the illegal dark web marketplace 'Hydra Market'".

The lawmakers argued that these illegal marketplaces on the dark web are hubs and havens for some of society's most dangerous criminals, and that as these criminals become more technologically advanced, there is a need to ensure that law enforcement efforts have more tools to combat them.

Ransomware group LockBit has targeted two medical institutions in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel in a cyber attack and offered to hold them for ransom or publish their stolen data on the dark web. Following the ultimatum, LockBit leaked the data of thousands of Neuchâtel patients on the Dark Web.

World Market has completed a complete "exit scam", but the site has not shut down yet and is trying to continue playing the "exit scam" game, it has been DDOS attacking other dark web markets, really evil intentions! There is no humanity in the dark web, only endless scams!

According to CNN, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, thousands of Russian users are estimated to have accessed other websites through the software's decentralized network Tor. Twitter has also added a special website to allow Tor users to use the platform without any problems, while Facebook has had its own Tor website since 2014.

In the document "Online Trafficking in Synthetic Drugs and Opioids in Latin America," the United Nations maintains that 30 suppliers or criminal organizations concentrate the sale of products such as synthetic drugs and fentanyl on the dark web.

On March 18, the Tor Project's official blog published an article, "Tor in the News in 2021", summarizing news coverage of Tor in 2021. "ODN" has reprinted the article below.

To discreetly buy and sell drugs, the 21-year-old computer-savvy man used the dark web. However, once an item is sold online, it still needs to be shipped. It was the coming and going of these packages that gave investigators a clue.