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The global COVID-19 outbreak has led to a surge in VPN usage around the world, particularly since the beginning of March when more and more countries experienced a jump in new infections.

Bitcoincore.org is now available to Bitcoin users as an onion service. The onion service is "another means of censorship resistance" without depending on certificate authorities or DNS infrastructure.

Versus Market, a "security driven marketplace," entered maintenance to conduct a security audit in response to a recent concern involving an IP address leak. The leak, according to the market, is not an issue for Versus users.

A federal grand jury in North Carolina returned an indictment against a 19-year-old for ordering drugs on the darkweb and reselling them to local customers as well as to other members of his drug trafficking organization.

Two Pennsylvania men were sentenced to prison for importing controlled substances from China and distributing the controlled substances on the darkweb. The defendants trafficked fentanyl and methamphetamine.

The United States Postal Service will continue to deliver mail even as schools and businesses across the country shut down or limit operations in an attempt to end the spread of the Coronavirus.

A recently unsealed nine-count indictment charged the administrator of the child abuse platform DarkScandals with an assortment of child pornography and money laundering crimes. Police arrested the administrator and seized the DarkScandals onion service.

A Philadelphia man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for purchasing hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Xanax pills on the darkweb, reselling the pills for profit, and laundering the proceeds.