DNSTARS, the self-described "independent drug testing and publishing platform" is shutting down. The forum is most well known for hosting the results of drug identification or purity tests from Energy Control, EcstasyData, Wedinos, and other drug testing laboratories. Read more

Nine members of a 13-member darkweb drug trafficking ring were imprisoned for their roles in the operation. The ring sold a variety of drugs through the darkweb where they accepted orders and received payment in bitcoin. They used German post offices and mailboxes located in the German-Dutch border region to deliver drugs to their customers worldwide. Read more

Australian law enforcement arrested two suspected drug traffickers and seized more than $1.5 million in cryptocurrency after the Australian Border Force intercepted two packages containing a combined total of 55 grams of MDMA. The cryptocurrency seizure was one of the largest of its kind in Western Australia. Read more

Police in Austria shut down a large-scale drug trafficking operation that conducted operations electronically. According to the police, the group purchased drugs on the darkweb and resold them to customers locally through messaging applications. The group used drops and never physically interacted with their customers. Read more

Recently unsealed court documents uncovered an FBI search warrant application requesting information on a PlayStation user from Sony. The allegedly user believed audio communication between players was secure and therefore safe for arranging drug deals. Read more

An international operation led by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) took down the Imminent Monitor web page and shut down the sale of the now-defunct Imminent Monitor Remote Access Trojan (IM-RAT). The takedown operation resulted in the arrest of 13 of the ‘most prolific’ users of the Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool. Read more

The Federal Drug Agents Foundation provided a Lieutenant of the South Brunswick Police Department with an award for the takedown and arrest of the darkweb vendor "Sinmed." The Sinmed bust led to the largest alprazolam seizure in the state of New Jersey. Police found thousands of pills in five gallon buckets from Home Depot. Read more

A Colorado judge sentenced a cocaine vendor to 66 months imprisonment for selling almost 50 kilograms of cocaine to his customers on a darkweb market. The vendor had also committed aggravated identity theft and money laundering, according to a press release from the Department of Justice. Read more