https://socialdesigners.eu/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Alton50381 2026-07-29T08:07:48Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.40.1 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Apos;Crocodile_Of_Wall_St_apos;_And_Husband_Argue_They_Are_Not_A_Flight_Risk&diff=185 2024-01-07T10:42:54Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>A lawyer for the self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street', Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, and her husband Ilya '' Lichtenstein, 34, claim neither of them are 'flight risks' because Morgan has frozen embryos in the city.&lt;br&gt;The couple's lawyer, Samson Enzer, has urged a judge to allow them to be freed on $3million and $4.5million bail respectively, saying the fact neither of them fled when given the chance upon first being alerted to the investigation, proves they would not run from the law if now freed on bail.  &lt;br&gt;Prosecutors are urging caution: It is believed the couple still have vast sums of money at their disposal which is likely hidden from authorities. &lt;br&gt;Furthermore, Lichtenstein has dual citizenship with giving the couple a possible safe haven from which it would be particularly difficult for U.S. authorities to secure an extradition order should the couple choose to flee.&lt;br&gt;The pair, dubbed 'Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde' by financial newsletter Morning Brew, were both arrested on Tuesday on federal charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States for allegedly laundering $4.5billion in  stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack. &lt;br&gt;If convicted, they face up to a maximum of 25 years in prison.    &lt;br&gt; A lawyer for the self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street', Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, and her husband [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market link] Ilya ' Dutch ' Lichtenstein, 34, right, has urged a judge to allow them to be freed on $3million and $4.5million bail respectively &lt;br&gt;Prosecutors argued that the pair, who live on Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, should be denied bail, calling them flight risks who still potentially have access to vast sums of money. &lt;br&gt;Lichtenstein, is a dual US-Russian national from Illinois, while Morgan hails from California.&lt;br&gt;The couple's lawyer claims the couple want to start a family and would not run away from her fertilized eggs. &lt;br&gt;'Morgan previously froze several of her embryos at a hospital in New York in anticipation of starting a family together, as she can only conceive through in vitro fertilization because she suffers from endometriosis,' the couple's lawyer Samson Enzer wrote in a filing.&lt;br&gt; In this courtroom sketch, attorney Sam Enzer, center, sits between Heather Morgan, left, and her husband, Ilya 'Dutch' Lichtenstein, in federal court on Tuesday&lt;br&gt;'The couple would never flee from the country at the risk of losing access to their ability to have children, which they were discussing having this year until their lives were disrupted by their arrests in this case,' Enzer explained.    &lt;br&gt;Federal law enforcement officials said they have recovered roughly $3.6 billon in cryptocurrency - the Justice Department's largest ever financial seizure - linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange based in Hong Kong, whose systems were breached nearly six years ago. &lt;br&gt;Enzer also attempted to explain how well behaved his clients had been since they were alerted of the investigation into them.&lt;br&gt;'Both stayed put in their residence in lower Manhattan ... even after the government's investigation targeting them in this case' several months ago.    &lt;br&gt; The couple say they have no intention of fleeing because Morgan has frozen embryos stored in New York because the pair had intentions to start a family &lt;br&gt;The court filing comes just days before the couple's next scheduled bail hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., on Monday. &lt;br&gt;Judge Beryl Howell and the United States and the co-founder of an online marketing firm. Morgan, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market onion] address a rapper and former Forbes contributor, describes herself as 'an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory'. &lt;br&gt;The August 2016 Bitfinex hack itself was one of the largest crypto heists ever recorded - so massive that news of the theft knocked 20 percent off Bitcoin's value at the time. &lt;br&gt;Lichtenstein and Morgan are thus far not charged directly with perpetrating the hack, but rather with receiving and laundering the stolen funds. The case was filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C.&lt;br&gt;The couple is accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 bitcoin that was stolen, after a hacker attacked Bitfinex and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions.&lt;br&gt; The couple is accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 bitcoin that was stolen, after a hacker attacked Bitfinex and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions'&lt;br&gt;The complaint alleges, the FBI and federal prosecutors were able to trace the movement of Bitcoin from this hack,' said Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.&lt;br&gt;He added that the money moved through a major [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] exchange tied to a host of crimes, as well as cryptocurrency addresses tied to child sexual abuse materials.&lt;br&gt;Lichtenstein and Morgan are facing charges of conspiring to commit money laundering, as well as to defraud the United States.&lt;br&gt;Prosecutors said on Tuesday the illegal proceeds were spent on a variety of things, from gold and non-fungible tokens to 'absolutely mundane things such as purchasing a Walmart gift card for $500.'&lt;br&gt; The August 2016 Bitfinex hack itself was one of the largest crypto heists ever recorded - so massive that news of the theft knocked 20 percent off Bitcoin's value&lt;br&gt;Bitfinex said in a statement that it was to working with the Department of Justice to 'establish our rights to a return of the stolen bitcoin.'&lt;br&gt;'We have been cooperating extensively with the DOJ since its investigation began and will continue to do so,' the company said. &lt;br&gt;Bitfinex said it intends to provide further updates on its efforts to obtain a return of the stolen bitcoin as and when those updates are available. &lt;br&gt;Tuesday's criminal complaint came more than four months after Monaco announced the department was launching a new National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, which is comprised of a mix of anti-money laundering and cybersecurity experts.&lt;br&gt;Cyber criminals who attack companies, municipalities and individuals with ransomware often demand payment in the form of cryptocurrency.&lt;br&gt;In one high-profile example last year, hackers caused a widespread gas shortage on the U.S. East Coast when by using encryption software called DarkSide to launch a cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline.&lt;br&gt;The Justice Department later recovered some $2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom that Colonial paid to the hackers.&lt;br&gt;Cases like these demonstrate that the Justice Department 'can follow money across the blockchain, just as we have always followed it within the traditional financial system,' said Kenneth Polite, assistant attorney general of the department's Criminal Division. &lt;br&gt; Morgan is seen rapping with the New York Stock Exchange behind her to the right&lt;br&gt;Justice Department officials say that though the proliferation of cryptocurrency and virtual currency exchanges represent innovation, the trend has also been accompanied by money laundering, ransomware and other crimes&lt;br&gt;'Today´s arrests, and the Department's largest financial seizure ever, show that cryptocurrency is not a safe haven for criminals,' Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement. &lt;br&gt;'In a futile effort to maintain digital anonymity, the defendants laundered stolen funds through a labyrinth of cryptocurrency transactions. 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Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Chinese_Crypto_Addresses_Sent_2.2_Bln_To_Scams_Darknets_In...&diff=178 2024-01-07T10:39:09Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;NEW YORK, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] lists Aug 3 (Reuters) - Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] operations between April 2019 and June 2021, according to a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis released on Tuesday.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;These addresses received $2 billion in cryptocurrency from illicit sources as well, best [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets] making China a large player in digital-currency related crime, it added.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The report analyzes China's cryptocurrency activity amid government crackdowns.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;However, China's transaction volume with illicit addresses has fallen drastically over the two-year period in terms of absolute value and relative to other countries, Chainalysis said.&lt;br&gt;The big reason is the absence of large-scale Ponzi schemes such as the 2019 scam involving crypto wallet and exchange PlusToken that originated in China, it noted.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Users and customers lost an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion from the PlusToken scam.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The vast majority of China's illegal fund movements in crypto has been related to scams, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market link] although that has declined as well, the Chainalysis report said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;This is most likely because of both the awareness raised by PlusToken, as well as the crackdowns in the area,&quot; said Gurvais Grigg, global public sector chief technology officer at Chainalysis, in an email to Reuters.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The report also cited trafficking out of China in fentanyl, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet marketplace] a very potent narcotic pain medication prescribed for [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market 2024] severe pain or pain after surgery.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Chainalysis described China as the hub of the global fentanyl trade, with many Chinese producers of the drug using cryptocurrency to carry out transactions.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Money laundering is another notable form of crypto-based crime disproportionately carried out in China, Chainalysis said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Most cryptocurrency-based money laundering involves mainstream digital currency exchanges, often through over-the-counter desks whose businesses are built on top of these platforms.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Chainalysis noted that China appears to be taking action against businesses and individuals facilitating this activity.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;It cited Zhao Dong, founder of several Chinese OTC businesses, pleading guilty in May to money laundering charges after being arrested last year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(Reporting by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Editing by Richard Chang)&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Most_Weapons_On_The_Dark_Web_Come_From_US_Study_Finds&diff=169 2024-01-07T10:32:19Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot; data-component=&quot;trackCWV&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;US guns make up as much as 60 percent of the weapons on sale on the dark web, new research has found.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Related links&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Weapons, dark web link drugs and stolen identities are readily available on the dark web, a . To investigate where guns, ammunition and guides to their use come from, the UK's University of Manchester and think tank Rand dark web [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] urls Europe -- or cryptomarkets -- and found 811 listings relevant to the study, published Wednesday.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Most weapons were from the USA, where , and most sales were destined for Europe. A gun bought from the dark web was used in a .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;The dark web is both an enabler for the trade of illegal weapons already on the black [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] and a potential source of diversion for weapons legally owned&quot;, said Giacomo Persi Paoli, the report's lead author. &quot;The ability for criminals and terrorists, as well as vulnerable or fixated individuals, to make virtually anonymous purchases is perhaps the most dangerous aspect.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On Thursday, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark websites] US and European law enforcement agencies the , two of the three largest [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web marketplaces] web [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets links]. &lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Cross-border_Drug_Trafficking_Cases_Nearly_Doubled_In_Four_Years...&diff=167 2024-01-07T10:31:25Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;THE HAGUE, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets onion April 19 (Reuters) - The number of cross-border drug trafficking cases referred to the European agency for prosecutorial cooperation nearly doubled in four years to 562 in 2020, partly driven by a huge increase in the production of synthetic drugs, the agency said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In a report published on Monday Eurojust said drug trafficking in the European Union alone has an estimated value of 30 billion euros ($36 billion) annually.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The rapid rise of production of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamines and their sale via online [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market url] places on the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] poses a big challenge to prosecutors across the European Union.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;By rapidly changing the composition of chemicals used for these drugs ... or creating new substances, producers try to exploit legal gaps and avoid prosecution,&quot; Eurojust said in a statement.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;According to the report by the European prosecutor's body, the total number of cases involving cross-border drug trafficking nearly doubled to 562 from 279 between 2016 and 2020.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Synthetic and other new drugs made up almost one-third of them.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Eurojust report said producers of new psychoactive drugs often don't work in old-fashion hierarchical drug trafficking networks and sale and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] sites distribution are done online.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;This phenomenon has increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with organised crime groups adapting quickly to an online environment, using secured communication channels, crypto-phones, cryptocurrencies and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets,&quot; Eurojust said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Likewise consumers of the drugs are also shifting to the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], paying online and receiving the drugs in the mail, it added, making prosecution complicated.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;($1 = 0.8317 euros) (Reporting by Stephanie van den Berg; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Most_Weapons_On_The_Dark_Web_Come_From_US_Study_Finds&diff=164 2024-01-07T10:24:20Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot; data-component=&quot;trackCWV&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;US guns make up as much as 60 percent of the weapons on sale on the dark web, new research has found.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Related links&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Weapons, drugs and stolen identities are readily available on the dark web, a . To investigate where guns, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market link] ammunition and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets 2024 guides to their use come from, the UK's University of Manchester and think tank Rand Europe -- or cryptomarkets -- and found 811 listings relevant to the study, [https://mydarkmarket.com tor drug market] published Wednesday.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Most weapons were from the USA, where , and most sales were destined for Europe. A gun bought from the [https://mydarkmarket.com dark markets] web was used in a .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;The dark web is both an enabler for the trade of illegal weapons already on the black [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] and a potential source of diversion for weapons legally owned&quot;, said Giacomo Persi Paoli, the report's lead author. &quot;The ability for criminals and terrorists, as well as vulnerable or fixated individuals, to make virtually anonymous purchases is perhaps the most dangerous aspect.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;On Thursday, US and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets European law enforcement agencies the , two of the three largest [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web Marketplaces] web markets. &lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=U.S._Arrests_Alleged_apos;Bitcoin_Fog_apos;_Money_Launderer&diff=162 2024-01-07T10:23:13Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;By Lawrence Delevingne&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;BOSTON, April 28 (Reuters) - U.S.&lt;br&gt;officials on Tuesday arrested Roman Sterlingov, the alleged principal operator [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets onion of cryptocurrency money laundering website Bitcoin Fog, [https://mydarkmarket.com Dark market Onion] according to a federal court filing.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Sterlingov, a citizen of Russia and Sweden, was detained in Los Angeles on money-laundering related charges.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Bitcoin Fog, launched in 2011, is one of the original Bitcoin &quot;tumbler&quot; or &quot;mixer&quot; services designed to help users anonymize cryptocurrencies payments, especially on so-called [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] online markets that trafficked in drugs and dark web marketplaces other illegal products, according to a legal statement accompanying the criminal complaint by Internal Revenue Service special agent Devon Beckett.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Analysis of bitcoin transactions, financial records, Internet service provider records, email records and additional investigative information, identifies Roman Sterlingov as the principal operator of Bitcoin Fog,&quot; Beckett wrote.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;More than 1.2 million Bitcoin (BTC) -- worth approximately $336 million at the time of the transactions -- were sent through Bitcoin Fog, according to the Beckett statement.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;A spokesperson for the U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet websites] which is handling the case, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Requests sent to email addresses tied to Sterlingov were not immediately returned. (Reporting by Lawrence Delevingne; Editing by Aurora Ellis)&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Massive_Dark_Web_Bust_Seizes_6.5_Million_From_179_Alleged_Drug_Dealers&diff=159 2024-01-07T10:21:16Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot; data-component=&quot;trackCWV&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The US Justice Department announced the largest dark web bust it has ever helped carry out, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark markets 2024] seizing more than 1,100 pounds of drugs from 179 alleged online dealers around the world. The US worked with police in Europe to carry out the investigation, seizing more than $6.5 million in cash and virtual currencies. &lt;br&gt;Operation DisrupTor -- named after the  frequently used to access the dark web -- was led by police in Germany, along with US law enforcement agencies and Europol. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The majority of the arrests took place in the US with 121 cases, followed by 42 cases in Germany, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] list eight cases in the Netherlands, [https://mydarkmarket.com darkmarket] link four cases in the United Kingdom, [https://mydarkmarket.com darkmarket link] three cases in Austria and one case in Sweden. Police said investigations are still ongoing to identify people behind these dark web accounts. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The for hidden parts of the internet that you can't easily discover through an online [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] marketplaces have grown in popularity at an alarming rate and allow drug traffickers to openly advertise and take orders from anywhere in the world,&quot; Rosen said. &quot;The dark net invites criminals into our homes and provides unlimited access to illegal commerce.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Operation DisrupTor used information from another major [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] raided in April 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray said. , one of the largest [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web marketplaces] online.   &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Investigators said they've tracked down more than 18,000 listed sales to alleged customers in at least 35 states and in several countries around the world. Wray noted that there's been a spike in opioid-related overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic and that the FBI will continue investigating dark web drug markets. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Today's announcement sends a strong message to criminals selling or buying illicit goods on the dark web: the hidden internet is no longer hidden, and your anonymous activity is not anonymous,&quot; Edvardas Sileris, the head of Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, said in a statement.&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=The_Dark_Web_Knows_Too_Much_About_Me&diff=123 2024-01-07T09:09:00Z

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Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Four_Paedophiles_Jailed_In_Germany_For_Raping_Boys_In_Garden_Shed&diff=101 2024-01-07T07:53:24Z

<p>Alton50381: Created page with &quot;Adrian V., 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets onion address] led the sexual abuse from a shed belonging to his mother - who fetched the men breakfast as they assaulted the victims&lt;br&gt;Four paedophiles have been jailed in for raping boys after luring them to a shed where they drugged them and [https://mydarkmarket.com dark websites] abused them for days.&lt;br&gt;Adrian V., 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, led...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>Adrian V., 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets onion address] led the sexual abuse from a shed belonging to his mother - who fetched the men breakfast as they assaulted the victims&lt;br&gt;Four paedophiles have been jailed in for raping boys after luring them to a shed where they drugged them and [https://mydarkmarket.com dark websites] abused them for days.&lt;br&gt;Adrian V., 28, a computer technician and the ringleader, led the sexual abuse in a shed belonging to his mother - who fetched the men breakfast as they assaulted the victims.&lt;br&gt;Along with three other men, Adrian V.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;was found to have trapped boys in the garden shed from April 2020, where the victims were drugged and raped over the course of three days.&lt;br&gt;One of the victims, now 11 years old, was the son of his girlfriend.&lt;br&gt;Prosecutors presented some 30 hours of video evidence, much of which had been shared in [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] forums.&lt;br&gt;The other men are believed to have met Adrian V. online. &lt;br&gt;They are Marco Sch., 35, an IT expert from Hanover; Tobias Sch., 30, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web market links] a craftsman from Hesse; and Enrico L., 42, a care provider from Brandenburg. Germany's privacy laws mean that surnames are not disclosed.&lt;br&gt;The chief defendant's mother Carina V., 45, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] lists was found to have been aware of the abuse.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The court heard that she had brought the men breakfast while they took turns assaulting the children.  &lt;br&gt; The chief defendant's mother Carina V., 45, was found to have been aware of the abuse.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The court heard that she had brought the men breakfast while they took turns assaulting the children in her garden shed in Munster&lt;br&gt; Adrian V.'s computer rig where he had downloaded more than 500 terabytes of child porn at his mother's house&lt;br&gt; Police officers walk past the garden shed where boys were abused by Adrian V.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;and the three other men in April last year&lt;br&gt; Adrian V., flanked by his lawyers, holds a folder up to hide his face at the court in Munster on Tuesday&lt;br&gt;Presiding judge Matthias Pheiler expressed shock at the 'horrific events' covered in the trial, calling the video recordings 'deeply disturbing'.&lt;br&gt;'The proceedings also clearly showed how paedophiles operate: they trick, they lie, they manipulate those around' the victims, he said, adding that he was repulsed to see that the defendants 'grinned' and even 'laughed loudly' while evidence against them was presented.&lt;br&gt;Pheiler said he was relieved none of the victims had had to testify in the trial. &lt;br&gt; RELATED ARTICLES &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Share this article&lt;br&gt;Share&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Adrian V., from Münster, was jailed for 14 years. The other three men were jailed for between 10 and 12 years.&lt;br&gt;The mother, Carina V., was jailed for five years for aiding and abetting. &lt;br&gt;Police are still screening evidence uncovered from the abuse in the shed and have used it to identify suspects across Germany and abroad. &lt;br&gt; The main defendant Adrian V.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;holds a folder in front of his face next to his lawyer at the Regional Court in Munster today&lt;br&gt; The ringleader Adrian V.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;is said to have 'grinned' throughout the trial&lt;br&gt;Five men have already been convicted and sentenced in connection with the case and investigators have identified 50 suspects, of whom around 30 are in custody.&lt;br&gt;The current trial began last November and the sentences were broadly in line with what prosecutors had demanded.&lt;br&gt;It is just one of a series of gruesome child abuse cases to rock the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia over the last year, prompting a tightening of legislation.&lt;br&gt;In June 2020, [https://mydarkmarket.com Darknet magazine] investigators said they were probing some 30,000 suspects as part of an investigation into a large online paedophile network linked to the city of Bergisch Gladbach.&lt;br&gt;In an earlier scandal in Luegde, 80 miles from Munster, several men abused children hundreds of times at a campsite over a number of years.&lt;br&gt;In response to the series of cases, the German parliament in March agreed tougher punishments for [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets using and sharing child pornography.&lt;br&gt;The law also gives police and prosecutors broader powers to monitor online communication of suspects.&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Massive_Dark_Web_Bust_Seizes_6.5_Million_From_179_Alleged_Drug_Dealers&diff=99 2024-01-07T07:52:53Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot; data-component=&quot;trackCWV&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The US Justice Department announced the largest dark web bust it has ever helped carry out, seizing more than 1,100 pounds of drugs from 179 alleged online dealers around the world. The US worked with police in Europe to carry out the investigation, seizing more than $6.5 million in cash and virtual currencies. &lt;br&gt;Operation DisrupTor -- named after the  frequently used to access the [https://mydarkmarket.com Dark Web Market Urls] web -- was led by police in Germany, along with US law enforcement agencies and Europol. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The majority of the arrests took place in the US with 121 cases, best [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets followed by 42 cases in Germany, eight cases in the Netherlands, four cases in the United Kingdom, [https://mydarkmarket.com darkmarket] three cases in Austria and dark web marketplaces one case in Sweden. Police said investigations are still ongoing to identify people behind these dark web accounts. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The for hidden parts of the internet that you can't easily discover through an online [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] marketplaces have grown in popularity at an alarming rate and allow drug traffickers to openly advertise and take orders from anywhere in the world,&quot; Rosen said. &quot;The [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market onion] net invites criminals into our homes and provides unlimited access to illegal commerce.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Operation DisrupTor used information from another major [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] raided in April 2019, FBI Director Christopher Wray said. , one of the largest dark web marketplaces online.   &lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Investigators said they've tracked down more than 18,000 listed sales to alleged customers in at least 35 states and in several countries around the world. Wray noted that there's been a spike in opioid-related overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic and that the FBI will continue investigating dark web drug markets. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Today's announcement sends a strong message to criminals selling or buying illicit goods on the dark web: the hidden internet is no longer hidden, and your anonymous activity is not anonymous,&quot; Edvardas Sileris, the head of Europol's European Cybercrime Centre, said in a statement.&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Former_Swiss_Police_Employee_Accused_Of_Selling_Weapons_Via_Darknet&diff=81 2024-01-07T06:34:31Z

<p>Alton50381: Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;ZURICH, April 8 (Reuters) - The former chief of logistics for a regional Swiss police force appeared in court on Thursday accused of falsely buying guns and bullets on behalf of his employer and selling them via the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market].&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Prosecutors allege that the man, who has not been identified, ordered weaponry and ammunition when he worked for dark web [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] urls the cantonal police in Schywz, a m...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;ZURICH, April 8 (Reuters) - The former chief of logistics for a regional Swiss police force appeared in court on Thursday accused of falsely buying guns and bullets on behalf of his employer and selling them via the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market].&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Prosecutors allege that the man, who has not been identified, ordered weaponry and ammunition when he worked for dark web [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] urls the cantonal police in Schywz, a mountainous canton near Zurich.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] is part of the internet often used by criminals for illegal activities.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Swiss police investigating the case recovered 80 guns and tens of thousands of bullets when they searched his home during the investigation. Court documents did not say to whom the weaponry was sold.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The 58-year-old, a civilian law enforcement employee, had ordered the material on behalf of police but instead used them for his own private benefit, court documents said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In the case, whose proceedings at the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona began on Thursday, the defendant is also accused of selling a &quot;large number of weapons without authorisation to various persons&quot; between 2012 and 2013.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;He is accused of having offered the weapons through a [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] account and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets url having worked with an accomplice who has since been prosecuted in Germany.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;He denies the charges.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Swiss broadcaster SRF said the accused handed over the weapons, which included automatic rifles and pistols, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web market list] to his accomplice in a garbage bag at his home.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The accomplice, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets onion] it said, then drove the material to a car park on a mountain road where the sales took place.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) launched the case against the man in 2018 after getting information from Germany. The OAG said the accused had made a profit of 180,000 Swiss francs ($195,000) from the transactions.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;A two-day hearing began on Thursday, with an verdict expected on April 22.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;($1 = 0.9251 Swiss francs) (Reporting by John Revill Editing by Mark Heinrich)&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Judge_Rejects_Plea_Deal_For_Darknet_Child_Porn_Purveyor&diff=65 2024-01-07T05:22:45Z

<p>Alton50381: Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A federal judge rejected a plea agreement on Wednesday that called for 15 to 21 years in prison for [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market link] a man authorities described as the world´s largest purveyor of child pornography.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Eric Eoin Marques is entitled to withdraw his guilty plea from last year if the judge departs from the sentencing range prosecutors and defense attorneys recommended.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;But U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;District Judge Theo...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - A federal judge rejected a plea agreement on Wednesday that called for 15 to 21 years in prison for [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market link] a man authorities described as the world´s largest purveyor of child pornography.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Eric Eoin Marques is entitled to withdraw his guilty plea from last year if the judge departs from the sentencing range prosecutors and defense attorneys recommended.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;But U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;District Judge Theodore Chuang isn't bound by the terms of the Justice Department´s plea deal.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;It's too flawed, and I also don't agree with the outcome,&quot; Chuang said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The judge said he's inclined to give Marques a longer sentence for operating a web hosting service that enabled users to anonymously access millions of illicit images and videos, many depicting the rape and torture of infants and toddlers.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The judge criticized a provision of the plea deal that wouldn't give Marques credit for six years he spent in custody in Ireland while fighting extradition after his 2013 arrest in Dublin. Chuang said he can't tell the federal Bureau of Prisons to refrain from counting those years when Marques likely is entitled to get credit for that time.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The judge said he isn't prepared to impose a sentence of 15 to 21 years if Marques does get credit for those six years.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;I want a sentence higher than that,&quot; Chuang added.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;It's not going to be 21 minus 6 to 15. That's not going to happen. I don't have to follow what you all did. It's clear neither of you really understood what you were doing.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Chuang also expressed frustration that prosecutors and defense lawyers still couldn't agree on certain facts of the case even after spelling them out in writing as part of the deal.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;I certainly think the process was such that I shouldn't defer to the parties' agreement when I'm not sure they really thought it out that carefully,&quot; he said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Defense attorney Brendan Hurson told the judge that his remarks give them a &quot;platform to negotiate further.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;If we can't get somewhere, then we would ask for some time to set a trial date,&quot; Hurson said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Chuang instructed the attorneys to provide him with a status report by June 25.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Marques, a 35-year-old dual citizen of the U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;and Ireland, was extradited to Maryland in March 2019, and pleaded guilty in February 2020 to conspiracy to advertise child pornography. He faced a mandatory minimum of 15 years and a maximum of 30 years in prison before the plea deal.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Marques created and operated a free, anonymous web hosting service, called &quot;Freedom Hosting,&quot; on the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] between 2008 and 2013.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] is part of the internet but hosted within an encrypted network. It is accessible only through anonymity-providing tools, such as the Tor browser, and allows users to access websites without revealing their IP addresses.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Marques´ attorneys have questioned how federal investigators were able to pierce the Tor network´s anonymity and trace the IP address of the server to a web hosting company in Roubaix, dark web markets France.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;This anonymity is notoriously difficult for government investigators to penetrate,&quot; they wrote.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Defense attorneys said they received an initial answer to that question when the government revealed &quot;vague details&quot; of how they discovered the IP address and location of the server.&lt;br&gt;&quot;It appears that this disclosure was delayed, in part, because the investigative techniques employed were, until recently, classified,&quot; they wrote in December 2019.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Investigators found what appeared to be more than 8.5 million images and videos of child pornography on the Freedom Hosting server, including nearly 2 million images that were new to authorities, according to a court filing that accompanied Marques' guilty plea.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Marques was living in Ireland at the time of the offenses.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;He used the encrypted server in France to host more than 200 websites that site administrators and users used to upload and download child pornography.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In 2013, FBI agents in Maryland connected to the network and accessed a child pornography bulletin board with more than 7,700 members and more than 22,000 posts.&lt;br&gt;Agents downloaded more than 1 million files from another website on the network, nearly all of which depicted sexually explicit images of children.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In July 2013, Irish authorities searched Marques' home and vehicle and detained him. When investigators entered his home, Marques moved toward his computer but was subdued before he could turn it off, authorities said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;After his release from custody, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market url] Marques purchased a new laptop and logged into his server to lock out the FBI and dark [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] link other law enforcement, the filing says.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Authorities seized nearly $155,000 in U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;currency from Marques. During an August 2013 extradition hearing, Marques said his business had been &quot;very successful&quot; and profitable.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In an April 28 court filing, a prosecutor said a government witness was prepared to testify at Wednesday's sentencing hearing that law enforcement had identified Marques as the largest purveyor of child pornography in the world and that he made approximately $3.6 million in U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;currency from his servers.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;___&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;This version corrects that the judge set a June 25 deadline for a status report from attorneys, not a status conference for that date.&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Bitcoin_Proves_Double-edged_Sword_For_Criminals&diff=59 2024-01-07T04:05:50Z

<p>Alton50381: Created page with &quot;US authorities have said they were able to access the &#039;private key&#039; to the hackers&#039; bitcoin account of ransomware hackers Darkside&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Regulators have repeatedly criticised the growth of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin because of their popularity with criminals but the technology&#039;s transparent transactions can also work against law breakers.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The lesson is one that has been learnt by cybercriminal hackers Darkside the hard way after the organisation extracte...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>US authorities have said they were able to access the 'private key' to the hackers' bitcoin account of ransomware hackers Darkside&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Regulators have repeatedly criticised the growth of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin because of their popularity with criminals but the technology's transparent transactions can also work against law breakers.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The lesson is one that has been learnt by cybercriminal hackers Darkside the hard way after the organisation extracted a $4.4 million ransom from oil company Colonial Pipeline in bitcoin.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Following the ransomware extortion, which forced the shutdown of a major fuel network in the eastern United States last month, the US Justice Department said it has clawed back $2.3 million of the funds by tracing financial transactions.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Following the money remains one of the most basic, yet powerful, tools we have,&quot; US Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said on Monday.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The financial forensics to track crypto transactions are more complex on the decentralised and anonymous networks.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;For a traditional bank payment, police can turn to the bank that sent or received the money but for bitcoin, the registry that records these transactions -- the blockchain -- does not ask users to reveal their identity.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;But the blockchain is also public and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets 2024 available to everyone to download and piece together who might own the anonymous addresses where the bitcoin arrives.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;While some users keep their bitcoin safe in an offline wallet, for example on a USB stick or hard drive, Darkside's bitcoins were always linked to an online account.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Without specifying how they came by it -- whether by hacking or [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market 2024] through an informant -- US authorities have said they were able to access the &quot;private key&quot; to the hackers' online account.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In 2019, analysis of the blockchain enabled British and American authorities to dismantle a child pornography ring and arrest more than 300 people in 38 countries.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The complex tracking of transactions has become an industry in its own right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Firms specialising in blockchain analysis have developed, such as Chainalysis in the United States and Elliptic in Britain.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;- Russian Hydra -&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;According to a Chainalysis report released in February, cryptocurrency transactions for [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets 2024] illegal purposes reached $10 billion in 2020, one percent of total cryptocurrency activity for the year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 2019 criminal activity using the online currencies reached a record $21.4 billion.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The total cost of ransomware payments alone made in cryptocurrencies soared to nearly $350 million in 2020.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Cryptocurrency remains appealing for criminals, primarily due to its pseudonymous nature and the ease with which it allows users to instantly send funds anywhere in the world, &quot; Chainalysis said.&lt;br&gt; The US Justice Department said it has clawed back $2.3 million of the funds Darkside received from Colonial Pipelines by tracing financial transactions&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elliptic analysts believe they have identified the bitcoin wallet that received the ransom payment from Colonial Pipeline to Darkside, and found that at least one other payment of $4.4 million.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;More importantly, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] markets links analysis of the transactions can identify the bitcoin sales platforms that received the wallet's ill-gotten funds.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;This information will provide law enforcement with critical leads to identify the perpetrators of these attacks,&quot; Elliptic researcher Tom Robinson wrote.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;[https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] regulators have put pressure on cryptocurrency exchange platforms.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Many, such as Coinbase, now require users to disclose their identity before making transactions. But other platforms are not following the same rules.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Both Elliptic and Chainalysis point to the growing role of Hydra, a sales site for Russian-speaking customers, which is accessible via the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], a version of the web not listed on search engines and where users can remain anonymous.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Hydra offers cash-out services alongside narcotics, hacking tools and fake IDs,&quot; Robinson explained.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Using sites like Hydra in conjunction with cryptocurrencies, [https://mydarkmarket.com onion dark website] Darkside's hackers have reportedly already resold some of the ransomed bitcoins.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;As the price of bitcoin has soared in recent months regulators are adapting their strategies.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The Bank of England said on Monday that payments in stablecoins, fixed-price cryptocurrencies, should be regulated to the same standards as bank payments.&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Chinese_Crypto_Addresses_Sent_2.2_Bln_To_Scams_Darknets_In...&diff=58 2024-01-07T04:04:52Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Chinese cryptocurrency addresses sent more than $2.2 billion worth of digital tokens to addresses tied to illegal activity such as scams and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market links] operations between April 2019 and June 2021, according to a report from blockchain data platform Chainalysis released on Tuesday.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;These addresses received $2 billion in cryptocurrency from illicit sources as well, making China a large player in digital-currency related crime, it added.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The report analyzes China's cryptocurrency activity amid government crackdowns.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;However, China's transaction volume with illicit addresses has fallen drastically over the two-year period in terms of absolute value and relative to other countries, Chainalysis said.&lt;br&gt;The big reason is the absence of large-scale Ponzi schemes such as the 2019 scam involving crypto wallet and exchange PlusToken that originated in China, it noted.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Users and dark web marketplaces customers lost an estimated $3 billion to $4 billion from the PlusToken scam.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The vast majority of China's illegal fund movements in crypto has been related to scams, although that has declined as well, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets onion] the Chainalysis report said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;This is most likely because of both the awareness raised by PlusToken, as well as the crackdowns in the area,&quot; said Gurvais Grigg, global public sector chief technology officer at Chainalysis, in an email to Reuters.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The report also cited trafficking out of China in fentanyl, a very potent narcotic pain medication prescribed for severe pain or pain after surgery.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Chainalysis described China as the hub of the global fentanyl trade, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet sites] with many Chinese producers of the drug using cryptocurrency to carry out transactions.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Money laundering is another notable form of crypto-based crime disproportionately carried out in China, Chainalysis said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Most cryptocurrency-based money laundering involves mainstream digital currency exchanges, often through over-the-counter desks whose businesses are built on top of these platforms.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Chainalysis noted that China appears to be taking action against businesses and dark web [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market links] individuals facilitating this activity.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;It cited Zhao Dong, founder of several Chinese OTC businesses, pleading guilty in May to money laundering charges after being arrested last year.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(Reporting by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Editing by Richard Chang)&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Apos;Crocodile_Of_Wall_Street_apos;_And_Husband_Are_Arrested_In_Bitcoin_Scheme&diff=57 2024-01-07T04:04:15Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>A married couple has been arrested and charged with laundering billions in stolen during the 2016 Bitfinex hack, as the Justice Department announced its largest financial seizure ever. &lt;br&gt;Ilya 'Dutch' Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who raps under the name Razzlekhan, were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on federal charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to defraud the United States.&lt;br&gt;Federal law enforcement officials said they recovered roughly $3.6 billon in cryptocurrency linked to the hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange whose systems were breached nearly six years ago.  &lt;br&gt;Lichtenstein and Morgan live on Wall Street in lower Manhattan. He is a citizen of both  and the United States and the co-founder of an online marketing firm.&lt;br&gt;Morgan, a rapper and former Forbes contributor, describes herself as 'an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory' and in one of her songs, declared herself the 'Crocodile of Wall Street.' &lt;br&gt; Ilya 'Dutch' Lichtenstein, 34, and dark [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] his wife, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who raps under the name Razzlekhan, were arrested on Tuesday in Manhattan on money laundering charges&lt;br&gt; Morgan (seen in front of Federal Hall on Wall Street in a music video) declared herself the 'Crocodile of Wall Street' in one of her rap songs&lt;br&gt; In this courtroom sketch, attorney Sam Enzer, center, sits between Heather Morgan, left, and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] site her husband, Ilya 'Dutch' Lichtenstein, in federal court on Tuesday&lt;br&gt;'I'm many things, a rapper, an economist, a journalist, a writer, a CEO, and a dirty, dirty, dirty dirty h*,' she raps in her 2019 single, Versace Bedouin.&lt;br&gt;'When she's not reverse-engineering black markets to think of better ways to combat fraud and cybercrime, she enjoys rapping and designing streetwear fashion,' her  reads. &lt;br&gt;The August 2016 Bitfinex hack itself was one of the largest crypto heists ever recorded - so massive that news of the theft knocked 20 percent off Bitcoin's value at the time. &lt;br&gt; RELATED ARTICLES &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Share this article&lt;br&gt;Share&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Lichtenstein and Morgan are thus far not charged directly with perpetrating the hack, but rather with receiving and laundering the stolen funds. 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Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=U.S._Arrests_Alleged_apos;Bitcoin_Fog_apos;_Money_Launderer&diff=56 2024-01-07T04:01:08Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;By Lawrence Delevingne&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;BOSTON, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets onion] April 28 (Reuters) - U.S.&lt;br&gt;officials on Tuesday arrested Roman Sterlingov, the alleged principal operator [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet magazine] of cryptocurrency money laundering website Bitcoin Fog, according to a federal court filing.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Sterlingov, a citizen of Russia and Sweden, was detained in Los Angeles on money-laundering related charges.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Bitcoin Fog, launched in 2011, is one of the original Bitcoin &quot;tumbler&quot; or &quot;mixer&quot; services designed to help users anonymize cryptocurrencies payments, especially on so-called [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets 2024] online markets that trafficked in drugs and [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market link] other illegal products, according to a legal statement accompanying the criminal complaint by Internal Revenue Service special agent Devon Beckett.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Analysis of bitcoin transactions, financial records, Internet service provider records, email records and additional investigative information, identifies Roman Sterlingov as the principal operator of Bitcoin Fog,&quot; Beckett wrote.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;More than 1.2 million Bitcoin (BTC) -- worth approximately $336 million at the time of the transactions -- were sent through Bitcoin Fog, according to the Beckett statement.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;A spokesperson for the U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, which is handling the case, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web market list] web marketplaces did not immediately respond to a request for comment.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Requests sent to email addresses tied to Sterlingov were not immediately returned. (Reporting by Lawrence Delevingne; Editing by Aurora Ellis)&lt;br&gt;</div>

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<p>Alton50381: Created page with &quot;id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot; data-component=&quot;trackCWV&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;, a fringe social network , resurfaced on Sunday. &lt;br&gt;The social media site, which markets itself as a bastion of free speech amid censorship of extremists on Twitter and Facebook, was intermittently available late Sunday. Clicking on links to the site sometimes would produce error messages, [http...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>id=&quot;article-body&quot; class=&quot;row&quot; section=&quot;article-body&quot; data-component=&quot;trackCWV&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;, a fringe social network , resurfaced on Sunday. &lt;br&gt;The social media site, which markets itself as a bastion of free speech amid censorship of extremists on Twitter and Facebook, was intermittently available late Sunday. Clicking on links to the site sometimes would produce error messages, [https://mydarkmarket.com onion dark website] but that didn't seem to stop some of the site's 800,000 users from posting celebratory messages, praising the company for coming back online. Many of them hailed the move as for .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Through the grace of God Gab is back online,&quot; Gab CEO Andrew Torba . &quot;We will never give in. Free speech and liberty will always win.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gab's return marks the latest turn in the unfolding debate over free speech in the modern age. Facebook, Twitter and Google's YouTube have on bad behavior and hate speech on their services. That's driven some of the people banned from those sites to sites like and Gab, a Twitter-like alternative social network founded in 2016.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Last week, Gab came under scrutiny when reports surfaced that Robert Bowers, who is charged with opening fire in , used the social network to voice . Eleven people died .&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Two days later, on Oct. 29, domain provider GoDaddy . GoDaddy said it made the decision after receiving complaints and darkmarket list finding content on Gab that &quot;promotes and encourages violence against people.&quot; , Stripe, Joyent, Shopify and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets links] Medium also cut ties with Gab.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gab isn't the only social network that's been used by extremists. Facebook, Twitter and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] list YouTube all have been used by terrorists and Neo-Nazis, as well. With varying degrees of success, those platforms have tried to crack down on hate speech. Gab, however, markets itself as a bastion of free speech that is more permissive than other sites, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark websites] which is part of why it's attracted extremists.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gab also isn't the first site to see its domain register or host pull their services because of its content. Last year, the neo-Nazi [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet site] The Daily Stormer after being booted by GoDaddy and Google. Gab, for [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web market urls] its part, is operating on the surface [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web Sites] for now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In a , Torba said Gab was able to come back online after , , and should be fully back online Monday. &quot;This coordinate smear by the mainstream media did not work,&quot; he said in the message. &quot;This smear is only going to propel us into the stratosphere.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;: Everything you need to know about the free speech debate.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;: Everything you need to know about why tech is under Washington's microscope.&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Darknet_Crypto_Kingpin_JokerStash_Retires_After_Illicit_1_Billion...&diff=49 2024-01-07T02:47:13Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;By Tom Wilson&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The kingpin or kingpins of the world's biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The &quot;Joker's Stash&quot; marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data traded hands for bitcoin and other digital coins, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market url] ceased operations this month, Elliptic said on Friday, in what it called a rare example of such a site bowing out on its own terms.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Criminal use of cryptocurrencies has long worried regulators, with U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde calling last month for tighter oversight.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;While terrorist financing and money laundering are top of law-enforcement concerns, narcotics, fraud, scams and ransomware are among the chief areas of illegal use of digital currencies, according to Elliptic co-founder Tom Robinson.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Joker's Stash was launched in 2014, with its anonymous founder &quot;JokerStash&quot; - which could be one or more people - posting messages in both Russian and darkmarket link English, Elliptic said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was available on the regular web and via the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], which hosts marketplaces selling contraband.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], or darkweb, is a part of the internet that isn't visible to regular search engines, and requires a form of browser that hides a user's identity to access.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elliptic, whose clients include law-enforcement agencies and financial firms, estimates that JokerStash raked in more than $1 billion in profits in cryptocurrencies over the years, at current prices.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bitcoin has soared from just over $300 in 2014 to hit a record $49,000 on Friday, pulling up other coins in its wake.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The blockchain firm reached the over $1 billion figure by analysing the marketplace's revenue and the fees it charged, and said it was at the lower end of its estimates.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In December, Interpol and the FBI seized the domain names used by the site, but it continued operating via the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], Elliptic said website Cyber-security firm Digital Shadows also said in December that the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet site] remained live after the seizure.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Interpol did not respond to a request for comment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The FBI could not be reached outside regular business hours.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Trading illegal credit cards is &quot;a billion-dollar business,&quot; said Robinson. &quot;It's also providing a means of cashing out other types of cyber-criminality.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;On Jan. 15. Joker's Stash posted a message announcing it would close permanently on Feb.&lt;br&gt;15. In fact it went offline on Feb. 3, Elliptic said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Joker goes on a well-deserved retirement,&quot; said the message, which Reuters saw a screenshot of. &quot;It's time for us to leave forever.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Accompanying it was a picture of the 1862 painting &quot;Sta´nczyk&quot; by Polish artist Jan Matejko, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] sites which depicts a court jester sitting forlornly in a bedroom as a party goes on in the background.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;(Reporting by Tom Wilson; Editing by Pravin Char)&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Germany_Charges_Man_Who_Allegedly_Planned_Hamburg_Attack&diff=48 2024-01-07T02:46:46Z

<p>Alton50381: </p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a man with plotting an Islamic extremist attack in the Hamburg area around the time of last year's 20th anniversary of the Sept.&lt;br&gt;11, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark websites] 2001 attacks in the United States.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The German-Moroccan dual citizen, identified only as Abdurrahman C. in line with German privacy rules, was in August. An indictment filed at the Hamburg state court charges him with preparing a serious act of violence and violating weapons laws.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear when the case might go to trial.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Federal prosecutors alleged the suspect decided by January 2021 to carry out an attack in the Hamburg area, and that his model was the 2013 attack on the Boston Marathon.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;He bought large quantities of chemicals as well as hundreds of screws and darkmarket [https://mydarkmarket.com dark market url] nuts that could be used for bomb-building, prosecutors said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To disguise his intentions, they added, he had the items delivered to a variety of addresses.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The suspect also allegedly tried to buy a hand grenade and [https://mydarkmarket.com dark markets 2024] a semiautomatic gun on the [https://mydarkmarket.com Darknet market lists], a part of the internet hosted within an encrypted network and accessible only through specialized anonymity-providing tools.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Three of the four militants who piloted the hijacked airliners used in the 9/11 attacks had lived and [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market links] studied in Hamburg.&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Germany_Charges_Man_Who_Allegedly_Planned_Hamburg_Attack&diff=40 2024-01-07T01:31:43Z

<p>Alton50381: Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a man with plotting an Islamic extremist attack in the Hamburg area around the time of last year&#039;s 20th anniversary of the Sept.&lt;br&gt;11, 2001 attacks in the United States.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The German-Moroccan dual citizen, [https://mydarkmarket.com best darknet markets] identified only as Abdurrahman C. in line with German privacy rules, was in August. An indictment filed at the Hamburg state court charges him wit...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;BERLIN (AP) - German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a man with plotting an Islamic extremist attack in the Hamburg area around the time of last year's 20th anniversary of the Sept.&lt;br&gt;11, 2001 attacks in the United States.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The German-Moroccan dual citizen, [https://mydarkmarket.com best darknet markets] identified only as Abdurrahman C. in line with German privacy rules, was in August. An indictment filed at the Hamburg state court charges him with preparing a serious act of violence and [https://mydarkmarket.com dark markets] violating weapons laws.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;It wasn't immediately clear when the case might go to trial.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Federal prosecutors alleged the suspect decided by January 2021 to carry out an attack in the Hamburg area, [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet markets onion address] onion and that his model was the 2013 attack on the Boston Marathon.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;He bought large quantities of chemicals as well as hundreds of screws and nuts that could be used for bomb-building, prosecutors said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;To disguise his intentions, they added, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web market list] web marketplaces he had the items delivered to a variety of addresses.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The suspect also allegedly tried to buy a hand grenade and a semiautomatic gun on the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], a part of the internet hosted within an encrypted network and accessible only through specialized anonymity-providing tools.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Three of the four militants who piloted the hijacked airliners used in the 9/11 attacks had lived and studied in Hamburg.&lt;br&gt;</div>

Alton50381 https://socialdesigners.eu/index.php?title=Darknet_Crypto_Kingpin_JokerStash_Retires_After_Illicit_1_Billion...&diff=33 2024-01-07T00:18:43Z

<p>Alton50381: Created page with &quot;&lt;br&gt;By Tom Wilson&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;LONDON, tor drug [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] Feb 12 (Reuters) - The kingpin or kingpins of the world&#039;s biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The &quot;Joker&#039;s Stash&quot; marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data traded hands for bitcoin and [https://my...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>&lt;br&gt;By Tom Wilson&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;LONDON, tor drug [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] Feb 12 (Reuters) - The kingpin or kingpins of the world's biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The &quot;Joker's Stash&quot; marketplace, where stolen credit cards and identity data traded hands for bitcoin and [https://mydarkmarket.com Dark Markets 2024] other digital coins, ceased operations this month, dark [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] onion Elliptic said on Friday, in what it called a rare example of such a site bowing out on its own terms.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Criminal use of cryptocurrencies has long worried regulators, with U.S.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde calling last month for tighter oversight.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;While terrorist financing and money laundering are top of law-enforcement concerns, narcotics, fraud, scams and ransomware are among the chief areas of illegal use of digital currencies, according to Elliptic co-founder Tom Robinson.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Joker's Stash was launched in 2014, with its anonymous founder &quot;JokerStash&quot; - which could be one or more people - posting messages in both Russian and English, Elliptic said.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was available on the regular web and via the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], which hosts marketplaces selling contraband.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], or darkweb, is a part of the internet that isn't visible to regular search engines, and requires a form of browser that hides a user's identity to access.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Elliptic, whose clients include law-enforcement agencies and financial firms, estimates that JokerStash raked in more than $1 billion in profits in cryptocurrencies over the years, at current prices.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bitcoin has soared from just over $300 in 2014 to hit a record $49,000 on Friday, pulling up other coins in its wake.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The blockchain firm reached the over $1 billion figure by analysing the marketplace's revenue and the fees it charged, and said it was at the lower end of its estimates.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;In December, Interpol and the FBI seized the domain names used by the site, but it continued operating via the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market], Elliptic said website Cyber-security firm Digital Shadows also said in December that the [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] site remained live after the seizure.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Interpol did not respond to a request for comment.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The FBI could not be reached outside regular business hours.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Trading illegal credit cards is &quot;a billion-dollar business,&quot; said Robinson. &quot;It's also providing a means of cashing out other types of cyber-criminality.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;On Jan. 15. Joker's Stash posted a message announcing it would close permanently on Feb.&lt;br&gt;15. In fact it went offline on Feb. 3, Elliptic said.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;&quot;Joker goes on a well-deserved retirement,&quot; said the message, which Reuters saw a screenshot of. &quot;It's time for us to leave forever.&quot;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;Accompanying it was a picture of the 1862 painting &quot;Sta´nczyk&quot; by Polish artist Jan Matejko, which depicts a court jester sitting forlornly in a bedroom as a party goes on in the background.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;(Reporting by Tom Wilson; Editing by Pravin Char)&lt;br&gt;</div>

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<p>Alton50381: Created page with &quot;It appears the self-proclaimed &#039;Crocodile of Wall Street&#039;, Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who was granted $3million bail on Wednesday, led a second life a hipster New York rapper who performs under the street  and the United States and the co-founder of an online marketing firm. Morgan, a rapper and former Forbes contributor, [https://mydarkmarket.com dark web sites] describes herself as &#039;an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory&#039;.&lt;br&gt;WARNING: EXPLICIT...&quot;</p> <hr /> <div>It appears the self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street', Heather Rhiannon Morgan, 31, who was granted $3million bail on Wednesday, led a second life a hipster New York rapper who performs under the street  and the United States and the co-founder of an online marketing firm. 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The case was filed in a federal court in Washington, D.C.&lt;br&gt;It was unclear who will be representing the couple in the criminal case and whether they had an attorney to speak on their behalf.&lt;br&gt;They were due to appear in federal court in Manhattan at 3pm on Tuesday. &lt;br&gt;The couple is accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 bitcoin that was stolen, after a hacker attacked Bitfinex and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions.&lt;br&gt; Morgan, a rapper and former Forbes contributor, describes herself as 'an expert in persuasion, social engineering, and game theory'&lt;br&gt; The couple is accused of conspiring to launder 119,754 bitcoin that was stolen, after a hacker attacked Bitfinex and initiated more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions&lt;br&gt;Justice Department officials said the transactions at the time were valued at $71 million in Bitcoin, but with the rise in the currency's value, it is now valued at over $4.5 billion.&lt;br&gt;'As the complaint alleges, the FBI and federal prosecutors were able to trace the movement of Bitcoin from this hack,' said Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.&lt;br&gt;He added that the money moved through a major [https://mydarkmarket.com darknet market] exchange tied to a host of crimes, as well as cryptocurrency addresses tied to child sexual abuse materials.&lt;br&gt;Lichtenstein and Morgan are facing charges of conspiring to commit money laundering, as well as to defraud the United States.&lt;br&gt;Prosecutors said on Tuesday the illegal proceeds were spent on a variety of things, from gold and non-fungible tokens to 'absolutely mundane things such as purchasing a Walmart gift card for $500.'&lt;br&gt;Bitfinex said in a statement that it was to working with the Department of Justice to 'establish our rights to a return of the stolen bitcoin.'&lt;br&gt;'We have been cooperating extensively with the DOJ since its investigation began and will continue to do so,' the company said. &lt;br&gt;Bitfinex said it intends to provide further updates on its efforts to obtain a return of the stolen bitcoin as and when those updates are available. &lt;br&gt;Tuesday's criminal complaint came more than four months after Monaco announced the department was launching a new National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team, which is comprised of a mix of anti-money laundering and cybersecurity experts.&lt;br&gt; The August 2016 Bitfinex hack itself was one of the largest crypto heists ever recorded - so massive that news of the theft knocked 20 percent off Bitcoin's value&lt;br&gt; Lichtenstein and Morgan are facing charges of conspiring to commit money laundering, as well as to defraud the United States&lt;br&gt; Morgan is seen rapping with the New York Stock Exchange behind her to the right&lt;br&gt;Cyber criminals who attack companies, municipalities and individuals with ransomware often demand payment in the form of cryptocurrency.&lt;br&gt;In one high-profile example last year, hackers caused a widespread gas shortage on the U.S. East Coast when by using encryption software called DarkSide to launch a cyber attack on the Colonial Pipeline.&lt;br&gt;The Justice Department later recovered some $2.3 million in cryptocurrency ransom that Colonial paid to the hackers.&lt;br&gt;Cases like these demonstrate that the Justice Department 'can follow money across the blockchain, just as we have always followed it within the traditional financial system,' said Kenneth Polite, assistant attorney general of the department's Criminal Division. &lt;br&gt;Justice Department officials say that though the proliferation of cryptocurrency and virtual currency exchanges represent innovation, the trend has also been accompanied by money laundering, ransomware and other crimes&lt;br&gt;'Toda'´s arrests, and the Department's largest financial seizure ever, show that cryptocurrency is not a safe haven for criminals,' Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said in a statement. &lt;br&gt;'In a futile effort to maintain digital anonymity, the defendants laundered stolen funds through a labyrinth of cryptocurrency transactions. 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