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The Russian darknet market conflict is a cyber conflict in the Russian darknet drug market, which began after the closure of the largest marketplace Hydra in April 2022. The struggle manifests itself in mutual cyber attacks of sites and an aggressive advertising campaign.
Anderson and his co-conspirators used darknet marketplaces to sell the drugs, prosecutors allege, shipping the stuffed animals from U.S. post offices. The darknet is a part of the internet that ...
Hydra is a Russian language dark web marketplace, founded in 2015, [1] that facilitated trafficking of illegal drugs, financial services including cryptocurrency tumbling for money laundering, exchange services between cryptocurrency and Russian rubles, [2] and the sale of falsified documents and hacking services. [3]
A darknet market is a commercial website on the dark web that operates via darknets such as Tor and I2P. [1] [2] They function primarily as black markets, selling or brokering transactions involving drugs, cyber-arms, [3] weapons, counterfeit currency, stolen credit card details, [4] forged documents, unlicensed pharmaceuticals, [5] steroids, [6] and other illicit goods as well as the sale of ...
The international effort also included the United States Department of Homeland Security, [2] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and Eurojust. [3] The operation was part of the international strategies that address the problems of malware, botnet schemes, and illicit markets or darknets. [2]
The Russian Anonymous Marketplace or RAMP was a Russian language forum with users selling a variety of drugs on the Dark Web.. With over 14,000 members, the site used Tor and used some escrow features like Silk Road-like darknet markets, but otherwise many deals took place off-site using off-the-record messaging. [1]
Since ARPANET, the usage of dark net has expanded to include friend-to-friend networks (usually used for file sharing with a peer-to-peer connection) and privacy networks such as Tor. [8] [9] The reciprocal term for a darknet is a clearnet or the surface web when referring to content indexable by search engines. [10]
Ross William Ulbricht (born March 27, 1984) is an American serving life imprisonment for creating and operating the darknet market website Silk Road from 2011 until his arrest in 2013. [4] The site operated as a hidden service on the Tor network and facilitated the sale of narcotics and other illegal products and services.