According to a report by research and risk assessment firm Digital Shadows, this scam was committed through a wide array of “sextortion” blackmail strategies, which included the weaponization of emails.
In a nationwide bust, U.S. federal officials have confiscated some 2,000 bitcoin (valued at just over $12 million) from 35 dark web drug lords and arms dealers.
In a newly published paper on the use of bitcoin for illegal activity, researchers from the University of Sydney, the University of Technology Sydney and...
A recent study (PDF) from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance and blockchain analytics company Elliptic explored the...
AlphaBay, the most popular market on the dark net, has been offline since July 4. Its absence has since resulted in users looking for alternative underground marketplaces.
