Darknet markets facilitated nearly $2.6 billion in cryptocurrency flows in 2025, with drugs accounting for the majority of listings. Some darknet platforms like MEGA include internal exchange features ...

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Darknet markets are increasingly returning to bitcoin (BTC) as their primary cryptocurrency because of rising liquidity and accessibility challenges associated with privacy-focused coins like monero ...

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction ...

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Abacus Market, the largest Bitcoin-powered darknet marketplace in the Western world, has abruptly gone offline in what appears to be an exit scam. Abacus Market, the largest Bitcoin-based darknet ...

Cybercriminals have been observed ramping up operations ahead of the holiday shopping season, driven by darknet marketplaces offering tools and services to exploit e-commerce platforms and consumers.

The U.S. seized 145 darknet and internet domains as well as cryptocurrency funds linked to BidenCash, a market for buying and selling stolen credit card details and associated personal information, ...

A final court order transfers the legal title of seized cryptocurrency and assets to the US government, closing a case tied to Helix’s operations from 2014 to 2017. The United States Department of ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in collaboration with Europol, the Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement Team, and various national and international partners, announced the results ...

A Glendale man was sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for his role in a darknet drug trafficking operation that sold cocaine, methamphetamine, MDMA, and ketamine to customers across the ...