Mar.27

CyberCrime
A Nevada woman admitted to paying a darkweb hitman site to murder her ex-husband.
Kristy Lynn Felkins, 37, of Fallon, Nevada, pleaded guilty to one count of the use of interstate...
Feb.27

DarkNet Markets
According to DarkDotFail, Dark0de Reborn exit scammed. That is largely all there is to it as far as I know. It appears as if the market simply vanished. Which is...
Feb.09

CyberCrime
A Kentucky woman who helped launder her son’s drug money will spend 15 months in prison. She used Coinbase.
A Kentucky woman was sentenced to 15 months in prison for helping...
Jan.30

CyberCrime
A federal judge sentenced the administrator of DeepDotWeb.com to 97 months in prison.
United States District Court Judge Donetta W. Ambrose sentenced Tal Prihar, 37, to 97 months in federal prison...
Jan.20

DarkNet Markets
Monopoly Market vanished in late December 2021 at roughly the same time the administrator of Cartel Market disappeared.
Note about DNS leaks for beginners: Nearly every link in this article is...
Jan.09

Technology
Payment services such as CashApp, Venmo, and Zelle are now required to report transactions totaling $600 or more to the Internal Revenue Service.
As of January 1, 2022, payment services like...
Jan.03

Drugs
Three Australians made as much as $25,000 a day by selling drugs through the vendor account “underlinecost.”
(1 AUD = 0.73 USD)
In November 2021, SA Police reported arresting three people for...
Dec.31

CyberCrime
In recent years, federal law enforcement agencies paid more than $500 million to informants. Some informants are now millionaires.
According to the most recent records compiled by OpenTheBooks.com, federal agencies, including...
Dec.25

Technology
Germany’s Minister of Justice, Marco Buschmann, has called for an EU-wide effort to regulate the content on Telegram.
Germany’s Federal Minister of Justice, Marco Buschmann, has called for an EU-wide effort...
Dec.17

DarkNet Markets
ToRReZ Market is retiring, according to an announcement from the market’s administrators.
In October 2021, White House Market announced their retirement after a successful run. Less than two months later, ToRReZ...
Dec.11

Technology
How shocking!
The US won their appeal against a UK court’s refusal to extradite Julian Assange, the co-founder of WikiLeaks.
A court in January blocked the US’s attempt to extradite Julian Assange...
Dec.09

Technology
A threat actor is running hundreds of malicious Tor relays as part of what researchers suspect is an attempt to deanonymize Tor users.
Nusenu, a Tor relay operator, first identified “KAX17”...
Dec.06

Technology
Although ProtonMail is one of the few email providers that are not openly hostile to those who value their privacy, the company’s willingness to comply with law enforcement has concerned...
Dec.03

Drugs
Three Seattle men were sentenced to prison for producing and selling counterfeit oxycodone pills laced with fentanyl.
The defendants, Bradley Woolard, 42, Anthony Pelayo, 34, and Jerome Isham, 40, were imprisoned...
Dec.01

Technology
A document from the Federal Bureau of Investigation reveals the data the Bureau can (and can’t) access from messaging applications, including iMessage, Signal, Telegram, Wickr, WhatsApp, and others.
Property of the...