The threat actors behind the LockBit ransomware operation have resurfaced on the dark web using new infrastructure, days after an international law enforcement exercise seized control of its servers.
German authorities have announced the takedown of an illicit underground marketplace called Nemesis Market that peddled narcotics, stolen data, and various cybercrime services.
Exit scams, where a darknet market owner runs off with all the money held while drugs are out for delivery, are nothing new. But the owner of Incognito recently went one step further, blackmailing dealers on his site to the tune of $20,000.
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Sandu Boris Diaconu, a 31-year-old Moldovan national, has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for his role in operating a notorious dark web marketplace known as E-Root.
Police in western Germany has also arrested three men who were allegedly running Wall Street Market, the world's second largest dark marketplace with more than a million users and 5,400 vendors.
Finnish law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of PIILOPUOTI, a dark web marketplace that specialized in illegal narcotics trade since May 2022.