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Abacus dark web drug market goes offline in suspected exit scam
Abacus Market, the largest Western darknet marketplace supporting Bitcoin payments, has shut down its public infrastructure in a move suspected to be an exit scam.
- July 15, 2025
- 03:58 PM
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Finland seizes servers of 'Sipultie' dark web drugs market
The Finnish Customs office took down the website and seized the servers for the darknet marketplace 'Sipulitie' where criminals sold illegal narcotics anonymously.
- October 15, 2024
- 04:08 PM
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New Webinar: Choose Your Own Investigation — Browser Attack Edition
Modern attacks have shifted focus to the browser, yet detection tools remain largely blind to the crucial activity happening there.
Join Push Security on February 11th for an interactive "choose-your-own-adventure" webinar on ClickFix, credential phishing, and other in-browser attacks we've observed in the wild.
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Empire Market owners charged for enabling $430M in dark web transactions
Two men have been charged in a Chicago federal court for operating "Empire Market," a dark web marketplace that facilitated over $430 million in illegal transactions between February 2018 and August 2020.
- June 17, 2024
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Darknet marketplace Nemesis Market seized by German police
The German police have seized infrastructure for the darknet Nemesis Market cybercrime marketplace in Germany and Lithuania, disrupting the site's operation.
- March 22, 2024
- 12:12 PM
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BidenCash darkweb market gives 1.9 million credit cards for free
The BidenCash stolen credit card marketplace is giving away 1.9 million credit cards for free via its store to promote itself among cybercriminals.
- December 21, 2023
- 10:40 AM
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German police takes down Kingdom Market cybercrime marketplace
The Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the internet-crime combating unit of Frankfurt (ZIT) have announced the seizure of Kingdom Market, a dark web marketplace for drugs, cybercrime tools, and fake government IDs.
- December 20, 2023
- 09:38 AM
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E-Root admin faces 20 years for selling stolen RDP, SSH accounts
Sandu Diaconu, the operator of the E-Root marketplace, has been extradited to the U.S. to face a maximum imprisonment penalty of 20 years for selling access to compromised computers.
- October 19, 2023
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Ex-Navy IT head gets 5 years for selling people’s data on darkweb
Marquis Hooper, a former U.S. Navy IT manager, has received a sentence of five years and five months in prison for illegally obtaining US citizens' personally identifiable information (PII) and selling it on the dark web.
- October 18, 2023
- 04:47 PM
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Cybercriminals train AI chatbots for phishing, malware attacks
In the wake of WormGPT, a ChatGPT clone trained on malware-focused data, a new generative artificial intelligence hacking tool called FraudGPT has emerged, and at least another one is under development that is allegedly based on Google's AI experiment, Bard.
- August 01, 2023
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SSNDOB cybercrime market admin faces 15 years after pleading guilty
A Ukrainian man, Vitalii Chychasov, has pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiracy to commit access device fraud and trafficking in unauthorized access devices through the now-shutdown SSNDOB Marketplace.
- July 27, 2023
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Man charged in US for running 'Monopoly' darknet drug market
A 33-year-old man from Serbia has been extradited from Austria to the United States to face charges of running a criminal darknet narcotics marketplace called "Monopoly Market."
- June 26, 2023
- 09:54 AM
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Police operation 'SpecTor' arrests 288 dark web drug vendors and buyers
An international law enforcement operation codenamed 'SpecTor' has arrested 288 dark web vendors and customers worldwide, with police seizing €50.8 million ($55.9M) in cash and cryptocurrency.
- May 02, 2023
- 10:40 AM
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New dark web market STYX focuses on financial fraud services
A new dark web marketplace called STYX launched earlier this year and appears to be on its way to becoming a thriving hub for buying and selling illegal services or stolen data.
- April 05, 2023
- 05:29 PM
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Illegal Solaris darknet market hijacked by competitor Kraken
Solaris, a large darknet marketplace focused on drugs and illegal substances, has been taken over by a smaller competitor named 'Kraken,' who claims to have hacked it on January 13, 2022.
- January 18, 2023
- 02:21 PM
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Darknet drug markets move to custom Android apps for increased privacy
Online markets selling drugs and other illegal substances on the dark web have started to use custom Android apps for increased privacy and to evade law enforcement.
- January 09, 2023
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Student arrested for running one of Germany’s largest dark web markets
The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) in Germany have arrested a 22-year-old student in Bavaria, who is suspected of being the administrator of 'Deutschland im Deep Web' (DiDW) 3, one of the largest darknet markets in the country.
- October 28, 2022
- 11:52 AM
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New dark web markets claim association with criminal cartels
Several new marketplaces have appeared on the dark web, claiming to be the dedicated online portals for notorious criminal cartels from Mexico.
- August 10, 2022
- 07:12 PM
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New 'BidenCash' site sells your stolen credit card for just 15 cents
A recently launched carding site called 'BidenCash' is trying to get notoriety by leaking credit card details along with information about their owners.
- June 20, 2022
- 11:02 AM
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U.S. sanctions crypto-exchange Garantex for aiding Hydra Market
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office has announced sanctions against the cryptocurrency exchange Garantex, which has been linked to illegal transactions for Hydra Market.
- April 06, 2022
- 08:49 AM
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Germany takes down Hydra, world's largest darknet market
The servers of Hydra Market, the most prominent Russian darknet platform for selling drugs and money laundering, have been seized by the German police.
- April 05, 2022
- 08:14 AM
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