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Mail from the (Velvet) Cybercrime Underground
Over the past six months, “fans” of this Web site and its author have shown their affection in some curious ways. One called in a phony hostage situation that resulted in a dozen heavily armed police...
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Firefox Zero-Day Used in Child Porn Hunt?
A claimed zero-day vulnerability in Firefox 17 has some users of the latest Mozilla Firefox browser (Firefox 22) shrugging their shoulders. Indeed, for now it appears that this flaw is not a concern...
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Feds Take Down Online Fraud Bazaar ‘Silk Road’, Arrest Alleged Mastermind
Defendant Charged With Drug Trafficking, Hacking, Money Laundering Prosecutors in New York today said that federal agencies have taken over the Silk Road, a sprawling underground Web site that has...
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No Bail for Alleged Silk Road Mastermind
A federal judge has denied bail for Ross Ulbricht, the 29-year-old man arrested last month on suspicion of running the Silk Road, an online black market that offered everything from drugs and guns to...
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Florida Targets High-Dollar Bitcoin Exchangers
State authorities in Florida on Thursday announced criminal charges targeting three men who allegedly ran illegal businesses moving large amounts of cash in and out of the Bitcoin virtual currency....
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Dread Pirate Sunk By Leaky CAPTCHA
Ever since October 2013, when the FBI took down the online black market and drug bazaar known as the Silk Road, privacy activists and security experts have traded conspiracy theories about how the U.S....
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Silk Road Lawyers Poke Holes in FBI’s Story
New court documents released this week by the U.S. government in its case against the alleged ringleader of the Silk Road online black market and drug bazaar suggest that the feds may have some...
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Dark Web’s ‘Evolution Market’ Vanishes
The Evolution Market, an online black market that sells everything contraband — from marijuana, heroin and ecstasy to stolen identities and malicious hacking services — appears to have vanished in the...
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After AlphaBay’s Demise, Customers Flocked to Dark Market Run by Dutch Police
Earlier this month, news broke that authorities had seized the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay, an online black market that peddled everything from heroin to stolen identity and credit card data. But it...
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