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Police from around the world shut down the biggest active black market on the dark web this month, according to announcements from law enforcement agencies in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands released on Friday.
Wall Street Market, as the black market site was known, was the target of a 1.5-year-long multinational investigation. Three Germans were arrested on April 23 and 24 inside Germany for their alleged role in creating and administering the site that sold illegal drugs, documents, weapons, and data.
"WSM was one of the largest and most voluminous darknet marketplaces of all time," FBI Special Agent Leroy Shelton wrote in the criminal complaint released on Friday.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/one-of-the-largest-dark-net-markets-of-all-time-falls-1834511568
(Score: 2) by looorg on Monday May 06 2019, @07:59PM (2 children)
So have the replacement "largest" Dark Web drug bazaar opened yet? After all isn't this just dark digital whack-a-mole? One gets put down and another pops up cause drug dealers wanna push their wares and drug users want to order drugs from the comfort of their home.
That said the trend tends to be that these all end in scamming just as if it was a bitcoin-exchange. Sooner or later someone in charge is going to think that the escrow wallet is just to large and tempting not to grab and run. After all millions of bucks in bitcoin just sitting there in one tiny little file waiting for you ...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 06 2019, @09:11PM
After all, that's why we keep our fundraising so low around here. A few thousand just isn't worth the effort ...
(Score: 3, Touché) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 07 2019, @06:13AM
Facebook, possibly is the next Wall Street Market. 2.3 billion "people" on that one!!