The platform had half a million users selling and buying prohibited items.
Law enforcement officials in the cities of Koblenz and Oldenburg, Germany, have reported neutralizing "arguably the largest illegal market on the darknet" called DarkMarket. Police also arrested a 34-year-old Australian citizen who allegedly operated the platform.
The site sold illegal substances, counterfeit money, stolen credit card details, anonymous SIM cards, and malware, authorities said. The underground market had half a million users, and earnings reached $ 170 million.
At the time of DarkMarket's closure, more than 2.4 thousand sellers were using the services of the underground market.
The shutdown of DarkMarket was not the first action by the German authorities to combat the underground market. In 2019, Die Landeszentralstelle Cybercrime (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Koblenz) of the Koblenz Attorney General's Office (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Koblenz), after years of investigation, disarmed a large hosting network of four dark web marketplaces offering various illegal goods.
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Law enforcement officials in the cities of Koblenz and Oldenburg, Germany, have reported neutralizing "arguably the largest illegal market on the darknet" called DarkMarket. Police also arrested a 34-year-old Australian citizen who allegedly operated the platform.
The site sold illegal substances, counterfeit money, stolen credit card details, anonymous SIM cards, and malware, authorities said. The underground market had half a million users, and earnings reached $ 170 million.
At the time of DarkMarket's closure, more than 2.4 thousand sellers were using the services of the underground market.
The shutdown of DarkMarket was not the first action by the German authorities to combat the underground market. In 2019, Die Landeszentralstelle Cybercrime (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Koblenz) of the Koblenz Attorney General's Office (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft Koblenz), after years of investigation, disarmed a large hosting network of four dark web marketplaces offering various illegal goods.
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