Finance, Credit

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'Crocodile of Wall Street' and husband are arrested in Bitcoin scheme

A married couple has been arrested and charged with laundering billions in stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ever.  Ilya ‘Dutch’ Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, darknet market magazine Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who raps under the name Razzlekhan, were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on […]

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One of the biggest ever dark web police stings leads to 150 arrests

Police around the world have arrested 150 suspects in one of the largest-ever dark web sting operations. The suspects arrested included several high-profile targets, darknet market links involved in buying or selling illegal goods online, Europol said today. Operation Dark HunTOR also recovered millions of pounds in cash and , as well as drugs and

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A timeline of the biggest ransomware attacks

id=»article-body» class=»row» section=»article-body» data-component=»trackCWV»> The history of technology is riddled with unintended consequences. As William Gibson wrote in Burning Chrome, «…the street finds its own uses for things.» Though Bitcoin may not have been originally conceived as a medium for ransom payments, it’s quickly become a central tool for online criminals. Ransomware, a category of

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One-third of the people reading this are thieves

id=»article-body» class=»row» section=»article-body» data-component=»trackCWV»> At least, that’s what a . Why? Because 36.4% of the 1.66 million computers survey had LimeWire, a popular peer-to-peer (P2P) program installed. Guilty by association? I have LimeWire installed on my Mac. This doesn’t make me a thief. In fact, I’ve bought a wide range of music through iTunes over

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Darknet crypto kingpin JokerStash retires after illicit $1 billion…

By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) – The kingpin or kingpins of the world’s biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters. The «Joker’s Stash» marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data

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Chinese crypto addresses sent $2.2 bln to scams, darknets in…

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and darknet market operations between April 2019 and June 2021, according to a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis released on Tuesday. These addresses received

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'Crocodile of Wall Street' and husband are arrested in Bitcoin scheme

A married couple has been arrested and charged with laundering billions in stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ever.  Ilya ‘Dutch’ Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who raps under the name Razzlekhan, darkmarket link were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on federal

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MDMA use drops due to COVID lockdowns, other drugs rise -EU report

LISBON, March 17 (Reuters) – The closure of nightclubs and bars during COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe is likely behind a significant drop in the use of party drug MDMA last year but consumption of other substances such as cocaine and cannabis kept rising, darkmarket link an EU study said on Thursday. Conducted by the Lisbon-based

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One of the biggest ever dark web police stings leads to 150 arrests

Police around the world have arrested 150 suspects in one of the largest-ever dark web sting operations. The suspects arrested included several high-profile targets, involved in buying or selling illegal goods online, darknet market magazine Europol said today. Operation Dark HunTOR also recovered millions of pounds in cash and , as well as drugs and

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