A very large black web market has just been destroyed

Recently, the German Federal Police Investigation Agency has successfully conducted a campaign to crack down on illegal black websites (with the help of Europol forces) in this country as well as throughout the EU territory. Three subjects were arrested, these people are said to be directly in control of the Wall Street Market - the name is considered the second largest black web market in the world. Authorities have also confiscated all of the site's servers and more than 550,000 euros (about $ 615,000) in cash, along with large amounts of Bitcoin and Monero (all at 6 digits). According to calculations, a bitcoin is currently traded for $ 5,700 and Monero is about $ 65. Thus, this can be seen as a 'breakthrough' campaign on the largest-scale black web market since the beginning of the year, both in terms of cash collected and severity as well as the impact of the case. job.

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It is known that the arrests are part of a plan to suppress, tighten operations on the dark web of the Europol international police agency. At the same time, the arrest of Wall Street Market suspects is only the first "effective gunshot" for Europol's difficult campaign in the quest to "clean up" the internet environment in general. Previously, Finnish law enforcement had 'wiped out' another black web market called Silkkitie (or Valhalla). In addition, American police have successfully arrested two subjects in a large drug trafficking line through the black web market.

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Back to the case of Wall Street Market, Europol side confirmed that there were more than 1.15 million users and 5,400 people illegally trafficking drugs, malware as well as other illegal documents on the exchange. The world's second largest black web. In a related move, the ZDNet news site also noted a major disturbance at a time before and during the German police campaign, it was the owners of Wall Street Market that seemed to be had "sniffed" the danger aimed at me when trying to make the last large-scale escape attempts to try to pocket as much money as possible before the "high run away". Not only that, some of the Wall Street Market's management objects seem to have planned to extort users by threatening to reveal their identities.

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In an official statement, the German Ministry of Justice said owners of Wall Street Market tried to "safely land" after realizing the high level of police surveillance and export. of a large number of new users - probably due to the temporary closure of the Dream Market (this is the world's largest black web market). This plan almost succeeded when many members of the Wall Street Market discovered that their account had lost money on April 16. However, this caused the German government to immediately enforce a series of above arrest and search orders.

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For years, police and cyber-security agencies have struggled to cope with the strong growth, out of control of many black web markets - the vast number of hidden transactions. name, cannot be accessed via Tor network. Currently, the most effective tactic implemented by law enforcement agencies is to gather evidence and urgently arrest those who run the black web market. In some cases, the police even secretly performed many attacks to take control of the platforms, then keep them functioning normally to gather detailed information about the deals. unauthorized to reinforce evidence and at the same time not miss out on any related subjects.