DarkMarket is one of the world’s largest illegal market on the web, and recently, this market has been shut down by many countries like Germany, Australia, Denmark, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Moldova, the USA, along with the FBI.
This market has been shut down in an international operation, involving all the mentioned above countries. Not only this, but Europol has also supported the takedown with expert operational review and organized the cross-border collaborative resolution of all the countries that were involved in this operation.
The experts affirmed that the illegal internet market is especially concentrated on the sales of drugs, forged money, stolen or fabricated credit card information, unidentified SIM cards, and off-the-shelf malware.
DarkMarket in figures
- Approximately 500000 users
- More than 2400 merchants
- Nearly 320000 transactions
- Nearly 4650 bitcoin and 12800 Monero were transported
Germany takes the lead
The Central Criminal Investigation Department in the German city of…