#dark-web

#dark-web

The German police last week announced the shutdown of the second iteration of the Crimenetwork crime marketplace. Crimenetwork was taken down in December 2024, after more than 12 years of operation, and a suspected administrator was arrested. Days later, the German-speaking online marketplace was resurrected on newly built infrastructure, and has since grown to have over 22,000 users and more than 100 sellers. The majority of the marketplace's users are likely German speakers, the police said.

An officer showed her images of a woman being sexually assaulted. At first, she did not realize the woman in the photos was herself. Investigators discovered over 20,000 images of non-consensual sex. For 10 years, Dominique Pelicot repeatedly drugged his wife and, through the dark web, recruited men from their neighborhood to rape her while she was unconscious. He committed this abuse at least 200 times.

British identity packages, including an ID scan, a selfie, and a dossier of personal data, can be purchased by criminals on the dark web for as little as 30, new research suggests. As identity theft continues to rise, experts have discovered the sale of national identity documents, driving licences, credit card details and 2,000 UK frequent traveller passports. The information can be exploited in multiple ways and used to apply for credit cards, mortgages, car loans, or to open bank accounts.

Mateo Ventura, 21, was arrested and charged in a complaint on June 8, 2023, and pleaded guilty to one count of concealment of financing of terrorism on Oct. 15. Ventura was convicted of providing multiple electronic gift cards to an individual he believed was an ISIS operative, intending that they be sold on the dark web for under face value with the profits being used to support ISIS.

"Came across a purported video of Epstein's suicide (leaked by anonymous source)," the email reads, referencing an attachment and linking to a Google Drive file. "Is this real???" WIRED spoke with the owner of the phone number listed on the website included in the email's signature. Ali Kabbaj, who identified himself as an independent journalist, said that he found the video on the dark web and sent it to federal investigators in 2021 for confirmation. He says he never got a reply.

"The murder of Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth by Yostin Mosquera exposed a world of extreme sex, dark web videos, and adult content creation."

Aiello, a patrol officer at the Gloucester Police Department, allegedly had a registered account on a dark website where users could view, download, distribute, and advertise child sexual abuse material.