Blake "Defcon" Benthall Already Admitted to Being the Administrator of Silk Road 2.0
According to the Ars Technica reporter present at Blake "Defcon" Benthall's court hearing today, 11/6/14, the federal prosecutors have already received a confession from Mr. Benthall. In a short hearing today in San Francisco, California, Mr. Benthall appeared in court to confirm his name and age. The prosecutors were able to schedule a custody hearing for tomorrow, after which Mr. Benthall is likely to be transferred to New York, where the federal court case was originally filed. Mr. Benthall has not formally plead anything since he has not yet been formally indicted. Tomorrow, Blake....
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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 Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) together with the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York have announced that they have arrested 'Defcon', the operator of illicit black market website Silk Road 2.0. At press time, the Silk Road 2.0 marketplace was no longer operational, with the website displaying a disclaimer that it had been taken down by Europol, Eurojust, the FBI, US Department of Justice and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Authorities arrested 26-year-old San Francisco native Blake Benthall yesterday in his home city. He will appear in federal court today....
A few days ago here at CCN we reported that Bitcoin's black mark Silk Road 2.0 had been hacked. Defcon, in a long post to Silk Road 2.0 forums on Tor, explained that three attackers had used the transaction malleability bug to steal over 4,763 BTC directly from Silk Road's hot wallet. Original estimates still haven't been confirmed but Defcon himself reports that 47% of all users had lost all of their funds. As always, I must warn readers that the majority of things on the Deepweb are not in any way shape or form trustworthy. It is my, and the good Government's advice, to stay away from....
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that they have successfully seized the assets of the Silk Road 2.0 in a joint operation with Europol and the New York Office of Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit and Money Laundering and Asset Forfeiture Unit. The investigation is called Operation Onymous. Apparently, the agent who filed the complaint was Vincent D. D’Augostino, a well-known Agent in Charge who previously led the team that brought down 115 members of the New York Mafia families in 2013. Whether D’Augostino was the team leader for Onymous has not yet been revealed.....