German prosecutors said today (12) that German police have uncovered a “world’s largest” darknet marketplace operated by Australians. This darknet marketplace is the Internet black market, used to sell drugs, stolen credit card information and malicious software (malware) and other illegal goods, through this darknet marketplace transactions worth about 140 million euros (about 170 million U.S. dollars).
German prosecutors said in a statement that police in the northern Oldenburg (Oldenburg) at the weekend, “arrested an Australian accused of operating the world’s largest illegal dark web marketplace”.
The prosecution said, “Investigators blocked the dark web marketplace and shut down the servers on the 11th.” The prosecution also said the crackdown on the dark web marketplace took several months of follow-up enforcement action.
At the time of the shutdown, there were nearly 500,000 users and more than 2,400 sellers on the site, the prosecution said.
The prosecution went on to say that “at least 320,000 transactions had been completed on this dark web marketplace, with over 4,650 ‘Bitcoins’ and 12,800 ‘Monero’ (Monero), two of the most common ‘Cryptocurrencies’ (Cryptocurrency) being traded.”
According to the current exchange rate, the total value of transactions on this dark web marketplace is equivalent to 140 million euros.
The dark web market offers “all kinds of drugs” and “counterfeit money, stolen and forged credit card data, anonymous SIM cards, malicious software, and a wide variety of other items” for trade.
German prosecutors say the arrested Australian, 34, believed to be the operator of the dark web marketplace, was arrested at the German-Danish border, and police seized more than 20 servers in Moldova (Moldova) and Ukraine.
The prosecution said, “Investigators will use the information from these servers to launch a new investigation into the buyers and sellers of the dark web marketplace.”
As for the Australian suspect was brought before the judge, refused to confess the truth, has been taken into custody by the prosecution, pending trial.
The bust of the world’s largest dark web market is in cooperation with the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) law enforcement and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), as well as police in Australia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Ukraine, Moldova and other countries, as well as the cooperation of Europol (Europol), together to eliminate this cybercrime drug den.
The secret dark web marketplace only allows special software or authorization to enter the transaction, thus ensuring that the identity of the user is not exposed.
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