(www.deepdotweb.com)
The FBI has close down a murky website that helps criminals monetize prohibited and refine income on a web.
Visitors to a site, DeepDotWeb, as of Wednesday, are now greeted by an FBI notice that says, in part, “This Site Has Been Seized by a FBI pursuant to a seizure warrant.” The notice also mentions a Organized Crime and Gang Section underneath a management of 18 USC 1956.
Section 1956 of a U.S. Code deals with domestic and general income laundering, among other things.
“Platforms like DeepDotWeb promote a rapist activity that occurs on subterraneous forums and marketplace places,” Roman Y. Sannikov, executive of researcher on direct during Recorded Future, a hazard comprehension firm, told Fox News in an email.
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“They assistance move new members and business to a rapist subterraneous by providing them with links to resources that they would differently have a tough time finding,” Sannikov added.
In tie with DeepDotWeb, dual Israelis were arrested, according to a Times of Israel. That news pronounced a website “facilitated a squeeze of weapons, drugs and other contraband” including stolen credit label information.
DeepDotWeb’s administrators are believed to have done millions of dollars in elect by referrals, a news said.
Aggregators like DeepDotWeb play a purpose in laundering supports by assisting criminals “find and lane a best cryptocurrencies and services,” Recorded Future’s Sannikov said.
DeepDotWeb operated on both a aspect web – what everybody has entrance to – and a dim web, radically portion “as a gateway between a dual worlds,” Sannikov added.
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Three German nationals who allegedly operated a Dark Web marketplace with over one million users were charged final week following a two-year review involving U.S. law coercion and authorities in Germany and a Netherlands, a US Department of Justice announced.
Administrators of that site, Wall Street Market (WSM), allegedly took all of a practical banking hold in WSM’s escrow and user accounts, believed by investigators to be approximately $11 million.
On a splendid side, a new news expelled this week from Recorded Future says that, discordant to renouned perception, a Dark Web is indeed not so vast.
“The dim web is mostly portrayed as a immeasurable and mysterious, while in reality, a series of [Dark Web] sites is little compared to a distance of a aspect web,” according to a report.
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Active supposed “onion domains” come to reduction than 0.005% of a series of aspect web site domains, a news said.
“The renouned iceberg embellishment that describes a attribute of a aspect web and dim web is upside down,” a news said.
