A Montana judge sentenced Michael Armando Sanchez of Bakersfield, California, to 54 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Sanchez had ordered a package of methamphetamine under a fake name. Postal Inspectors arrested him during a controlled delivery. Read More
The FBI and the Department of Justice seized the domain name weleakinfo.com, according to a recent press release. Prior to the seizure, weleakinfo.com was used as a platform for the distribution of stolen personal information. The site had claimed to have more than 12 billion records indexed. Read More
Microsoft released a patch for Windows 10 systems after the National Security Administration disclosed a vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI. The vulnerability, if exploited, would render Windows 10 as fundamentally vulnerable, according to the NSA. Read More
A California man pleaded guilty to one count of distribution of a controlled substance causing the death of a person. According to the plea agreement, defendant Elijah Richter had purchased 25I-NBOMe on Silk Road in 2012. A juvenile fatally overdosed on the same product Richter had ordered. Read More
Law enforcement in Bavaria arrested a 27-year-old from Deggendorf for ordering large quantities of drugs on the darkweb and reselling them to local customers. During a search of the suspect's apartment, authorities seized close to one kilogram of marijuana, cocaine, and ecstasy. Read More
A Nottinghamshire man was sentenced to 10 months in prison suspended for two years for darkweb drug trafficking. For years, Stephen Henry-Palmer of Retford, Nottinghamshire, sold thousands of Xanax and Diazepam pills on an undisclosed darkweb marketplace in exchange for bitcoin. Read More
Dread administrators are actively migrating Dread to a new host and the downtime is "nothing to be be concerned about," according to a message from one of the admins. An issue with the current host unexpectedly brought Dread down and the host provided "less than adequate responses" when asked about the incident. Read More
A former University of Illinois mathematics student will spend the next 13 years in prison for darknet drug trafficking and money laundering. Between March 2017 and May 2018, Stephan Caamano of Champaign, Illinois, sold millions of Xanax pills through a number of darkweb marketplaces and laundered the profits through Bitcoin. Read More
