Cryptoshit
One of the relatively new darknet markets called “Rapture Market” disappeared for long enough that even the media wrote about the marketplace’s disappearance. It turns out that Rapture Market did not exit scam. They are back but are being hit by an allegedly intense DDoS attack.
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A German court sentenced a known child abuser who had been using the darknet child abuse site Tabooless Chat. A former member of Tabooless turned the man into authorities.
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The National Public Prosecution Service of the Netherlands, alongside the National Police, arrested four darknet drug traffickers on Tuesday for producing, packing, and shipping ecstasy to customers on the darknet.
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Dutch police confiscated ten servers from the bulletproof hosting company known as MaxiDed along with a file-sharing service associated with companies in the Netherlands as part of a a long-term investigation in collaboration with Thai police.
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The Public Prosecutor’s office in Frankfurt has charged four men for running the now-defunct darknet child abuse forum “Elysium.” All four have been charged for administration, development, and moderation of the forum.
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Earlier this month, law enforcement in the Netherlands arrested a 28-year old from Rotterdam for allegedly selling stolen or hacked PayPal accounts on the now-defunct Hansa darknet market. He is currently being held on computer fraud charges.
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An ongoing case at the district court of Freiburg has revealed more information about members of Tabooless Chat as well as the investigation that ended the site.
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According to an announcement on the Spanish National Police’s website, an international operation conducted by the National Police’s Central Cybercrime Unit led to the arrest of eight individuals for sharing child exploitation content on darknet chatrooms and through Skype.
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During the recent sentencing of the Tabooless administrator, investigators detailed the steps taken during the investigation. According to two investigators, they caught the 50-year-old through what non-technical readers would refer to as “catfishing.” Long story short, they posed as a woman who seduced the admin, slowly chipping away at his anonymity.
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Matthias Wenz, Deputy Head of a unit of the German Federal Police dedicated to crimes against children, talked about the current state of child abuse on the clearnet and darknet. He revealed the needed changes within law enforcement and other aspects of the crime unknown to the public.
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