- The darkest part of the Internet is the so-called dark web, sometimes also dark net or dark web
- The infamous core of the dark web was DarkMarket, an illegal digital marketplace
- European legislation has arrested a man who was to run the business and confiscated his servers
Dark web, illustration photo: DNA India
Hard blow for the dark web
The Internet is generally a very inappropriate place. You can find a lot of useful information there, but also things you don’t want to see or know. He is notorious then dark web, a component of the world wide web that you can access only through illegal browsers and access utilities.
A kind of pride of the dark site is then DarkMarket digital marketplace. But you won’t buy what you think there. This part of the Internet deals with forged documents, child pornography, drugs, weapons and even people. Criminals from the dark web are difficult to find, because they use quality private networks, nicknames and to pay cryptocurrencies.
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The dark marketplace ends
However, Europol (an EU organization dedicated to combating organized crime – editor’s note) on Tuesday published a report about that managed to catch a 34-year-old Australian who was supposed to manage and host DarkMarket. They sent him into custody and confiscated over 20 servers located in Ukraine and Moldova.
Since then, according to European legislation, the illegal digital marketplace has been non-functional. However, the European authority points out that this is a more far-reaching crackdown on cybercrime. It worked similarly drop the WikiLeaks website or the torrent portal The Pirate Bay.
Source: Mobilizujeme.cz by mobilizujeme.cz.
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