International FBI and Europol coordinated operation takes down Silk Road
This week the Irish police in coordination with several other police organizations around the world, has begun a big operation codename Onymous, against the illegal market Silkroad and other organized movements acting inside the darknet sphere. Today morning the Garda National has seized an illegal operation from an Irish silk road based drug trafficker. Ecstasy tablets, LSD and other controlled drugs nearing €180,000 in value, have been seized by Gardaí in a raid on ‘Darknet’ drug distribution centre in Dublin. Members from the Garda National Drug Unit, the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB)....
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Less than a mile from my home, as the Web Summit wrapped up in Dublin's RDS, Gardai (the Irish police) raided an office in the leafy suburbs. Two men were arrested as part of an international operation targeting drug sellers using Tor, and several hundred thousand euro in cash, as well as quantities of of drugs were seized, along with computer equipment. This was part of a broader international operation called "Onymous" between the US and sixteen European countries and Europol, which has shut down Silk Road 2.0 and over 400 other darknet websites. A number of arrestshave also taken place,....
Welcome back to another Bitcoin News in Review, where we feature some of the top stories of the week here on CryptoCoins News. This week (2 November - 9 November), Silk Road 2.0 and various other similar services were taken down by the FBI, bitcoin tipping app ChangeTip went viral, the bitcoin price has been on the rise, and more. Keep scrolling for this week's top stories. Also read: Bitcoin News in Review: SEC, Bitcoin Price, Hacks, and More. Silk Road 2.0 Shut Down. Exactly one year after it went live, Silk Road 2.0 was shut down by the FBI and Europol this week on November 6th. The....
Dark net marketplaces are facing increased action from governments around the world, as anticipated In a release today, the United Kingdom National Crime Agency revealed their part in the ongoing Operation Onymous that has brought several country's best online crime agencies together to bring down over 400 dark net websites, not all of them marketplaces. The UK NCA worked with the European Cybercrime Center to take down the infrastructure supporting these sites. The news of coordinated government action against Dark net marketplaces came to light with the closing of Silk Road 2.0 yesterday....
Exactly one year after it went live on November 6 2013, Silk Road 2.0 has been taken offline in a joint operation between the FBI and Europol. Visitors to the deep web drug marketplace have been met with an official police notice informing them of the site's seizure. The New York FBI announced on Twitter that the site's operator Blake Benthall, was arrested in San Francisco. "Operator of Silk Road 2.0, Blake Benthall, arrested yesterday by FBI agents in San Francisco, CA. Business Insider reports the arrest of a major online drug dealer in Ireland, as part of Operation Onymous. European....
The coordinated international action, dubbed Operation Onymous, against the Deep Net marketplaces infamous for being run on the rails of Bitcoin and other digital currencies is still being unveiled. So far, three men have been arrested in the last few days in conjunction with the cases. Currently, Cloud 9, Hydra, and Silk Road 2.0 display the increasingly-visible "This Hidden Site Has Been Seized" notice that online law enforcement has become famous for making. Beyond the three confirmed downed sites, several other Deep Net marketplaces are offline at the moment. Dark net marketplace....