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A federal judge sentenced a Florida man to 60 months in prison for selling counterfeit credit cards and firearms on the darkweb.

On June 30, the Tor Project announced updates to both the alpha and stable releases of the Tor Browser. The new releases include fixes for vulnerabilities discovered in FireFox as well as NoScript bug fixes.

The Northern California Illicit Digital Economy Task Force arrested TheCommission, a "top-level" vendor of heroin, morphine, cocaine, and other substances on Empire Market.

U.S. Senators introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act in an attempt to mandate backdoors. The bill bans so-called "warrant-proof" encryption and forces companies and service providers to decrypt data upon request.

Three men, including the brother of WWE wrestler Kurt Angle, received fines and probation instead of prison time for their roles in a steroid distribution operation involving vendor accounts on Alphabay, Dream, Empire Market, and others.

Sales on the Hydra darkweb marketplace decreased by 25% during the month of April, according to recent research on the impact of COVID-19 on the darkweb drug trade. The reason for the decline in drug use and purchases, according to some users, is ongoing lockdown measures in many regions.

Authorities arrested and charged a Michigan man for allegedly hacking the human resource database of a medical center, stealing the personally identifiable information of more than 65,000 employees, and selling the stolen data on the darkweb.

A Luxembourg police officer allegedly purchased potassium cyanide on the now-defunct Alphabay darkweb market. He used the poison to kill his sister and her husband, according to investigators.