Trading Corporate Secrets Becoming New Darknet Industry
The seemingly unstoppable growth of “darknet” marketplaces is creating a new commodity industry – corporate insider information. The mainstream media would have you believe the dark web is primarily for distributing drugs and child pornography — much as they did with the regular Internet back in the mid-1990s. Anonymous Markets Tempting for Corporate....
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Investigations in the aftermath of the recent terror attack in Munich which saw nine people killed in a Munich shopping center on Friday will now see darknet markets under the scanner. Speaking to journalists today, Holger Muench, the chief of Germany’s Federal Criminal Police (also known as Bundeskriminalamt or BKA), has stated that the emergence of the darknet as a trading platform will see investigations focus on the clandestine corner of the internet. The darknet, an overlay network that can only be accessed by specific software and nodes like Tor is commonly known as an illicit....
The SEC has taken action against a Californian man for fraudulently offering insider stock trading tips on a darknet marketplace. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced charges against California resident James Roland Jones in the first-ever enforcement action from the commission to target securities fraud on the darknet.According to the March 18 complaint, Jones is accused of accessing a darknet-based insider trading forum in late 2016 to seek material non-public information, or MNPI, on which to trade securities. He was unsuccessful in obtaining any useful MNPI from....
A study revealed that darknet markets have astonishing figures so far in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic, but the dynamics changed compared to the last year’s numbers. Darknet Vendors Surpassed $800 Million in Revenues Despite Covid Pandemic According to the Chainalysis report, darknet marketplaces surpassed the $800 million threshold worth of cryptocurrencies in revenue made in 2019, the all-time high. However, the exact figures for 2020 will be released in the “Chainalysis 2021 Crypto Crime Report” in January 2021. However, the research firm noted that the....
Douppikauppa, a well-known drug seller on Valhalla darknet marketplace was arrested by Finnish law enforcement agencies. One more darknet seller bites the dust! The Finnish law enforcement agencies have reportedly arrested one of the leading darknet drugs seller in the region going by the name Douppikauppa. According to a leading deepweb news website, Douppikauppa was one of the reputed darknet vendors who has been selling various drugs on Valhalla (a darknet marketplace). His arrest is said to be linked to last month’s press release by the Finnish Customs regarding the seizure of a large....
More revelations have come to light since the trial of the former CEO of the defunct crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), commenced last week. Part of these secrets include the alleged illegalities that went on in FTX and its sister company, Alameda Research. FTX Offered To Pay Whistleblower $5 Million According to a report […]