A new identity, a life-saving kidney, credit card numbers or even the murder of a troublesome business partner are all a few clicks away on the so-called “darknet,” the seedy underbelly of the ...

If you wanted to buy contraband online in the last five years or so, you may have noticed that the option to pay in bitcoin — once the most popular form of payment on darknet markets — is slowly ...

Today, the Department of Justice, through the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (JCODE) team joined Europol to announce the results of Operation Dark HunTor, a coordinated international ...

The internet is much more than just the publicly available, Google-able web services most online users frequent – and that’s good for free expression. Companies frequently create private networks to ...

With new technologies evolving, criminals find easier ways for illicit activities — that is the dark side of anonymity and decentralization. The United States — the worst-hit country by sheer numbers ...

Federal officials announced a crackdown Wednesday on an alleged Los Angeles-based drug trafficking ring that they said distributed methamphetamine and other narcotics to thousands of customers in at ...

It can take 30 seconds to load just one webpage on the Darknet. There are only between 200,000 and 400,000 sites in it, but good luck finding the one you want when the only things that remotely ...

This article first appeared on RollingStone.com. On July 15th in Pittsburgh, David J. Hickton, a gray-haired U.S. attorney in a crisp dark suit, stepped out before an American flag to announce the ...

While the dark web community fell into a brief state of turmoil around late April and early May, research by Wired, The New York Times and Bitcoin Magazine shows that a new generation of darknet ...

James Martin receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Institute of Criminology. He is a member of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Media Watch. Australia is ...

The Ragnar Locker ransomware group is warning that they will leak stolen data from victims that contact law enforcement authorities, like the FBI. Ragnar Locker has previously hit prominent companies ...