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'Crocodile of Wall St' and husband argue they are not a flight risk

A lawyer for the self-proclaimed ‘Crocodile of Wall Street’, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, and her husband Ilya ” Lichtenstein, 34, claim neither of them are ‘flight risks’ because Morgan has frozen embryos in the city. The couple’s lawyer, Samson Enzer, has urged a judge to allow them to be freed on $3million and $4.5million bail respectively, saying the …

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First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> A government shutdown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and Hansa has merchants and consumers looking for a new home. Authorities , the largest online marketplace for illegal goods, on July 4, and took down Hansa, the third largest, on Thursday. The sites, where people could buy drugs, guns and child pornography, …

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Global Drug Survey reveals alcohol and drug habits during pandemic

Australians are officially the world’s biggest binge drinkers, but Britain and darknet market markets the US don’t lag far behind – featuring in the top five of the latest Global Drug Survey. Denmark and Finland ranked at second and third in the survey of more than 32,000 people from 22 countries which collected data from …

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U.S. imposes sanctions on Russian darknet market and crypto exchange

WASHINGTON, darknet market sites April 5 (Reuters) – The U.S.Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Tuesday on a Russia-based darknet magazine darknet market site and a cryptocurrency exchange that it said operates primarily out of Moscow and dark darknet market St. Petersburg. The sanctions against Russia-Based Hydra and currency exchange Garantex, published on the Treasury Department’s …

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The history of hacking ransoms and cryptocurrency

id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> Earlier this month, hundreds of companies from the US to Sweden were entangled in the , a company that offers network infrastructure to businesses around the world. The Kaseya hack comes on the heels of other headline-grabbing cyberattacks like the  and the . In each instance, criminals had the opportunity to make off with …

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Bitcoin proves double-edged sword for criminals

US authorities have said they were able to access the ‘private key’ to the hackers’ bitcoin account of ransomware hackers Darkside Regulators have repeatedly criticised the growth of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin because of their popularity with criminals but the technology’s transparent transactions can also work against law breakers. The lesson is one that has …

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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, Europol said today. Operation dark market Link HunTOR also recovered millions of pounds in cash and , as well as drugs and guns.  …

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Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…

By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received $1.3 billion in illicit digital coins last year …

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