Dark Web markets are online marketplaces hidden within anonymized networks like Tor, where users trade illegal goods and services in exchange for cryptocurrency. These markets have evolved significantly since the early days of Silk Road and AlphaBay, which pioneered the model of anonymous darknet commerce. We’re currently looking at the top 10 Dark Web markets,...Read More
What would you do, if you got a phone call telling you that someone wants you dead? One gray afternoon in November 2020, I’m on a video chat with my colleague Carl Miller, a technology researcher and author. We’re speaking to a woman from Switzerland, who I’ll call “Elena.” She’s middle-aged, with brown hair and...Read More
London | When Britain’s tough new laws to protect children online came into force earlier this year, thousands of internet users quickly found a workaround. The laws enacted in July are meant to require British internet users to prove they are adults before accessing pornography, in the name of child safety. Instead, downloads of virtual...Read More
In that moment, Akasha says, he felt like he had just become the Pablo Escobar of psychedelics. “Holy shit,” he thought. “That is a lot of DMT.” Today, thinking back to that turning point in his rise and fall as a hallucinogens kingpin, Akasha wishes he could say that he saw in that Brazilian forest...Read More
Operation RapTor led to the arrest of 270 dark web vendors and buyers Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2025 Law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation RapTor’ led to the arrest of 270 dark web vendors and buyers across 10 countries. Police arrested 270 suspects following an international law enforcement action codenamed ‘Operation RapTor’ that targeted dark web...Read More
I loved email. It was the perfect kinda-personal-but-boundary-affirming way to keep in touch. However, over time, I, like many people, entrusted my email address to companies that gave away, sold, or lost my personal information in data breaches, which led to criminals posting my email address (and millions more) on the dark web. Recently, I...Read More
People hold up signs reading “Free Ross” as Donald Trump arrives to address the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, D.C, on May 25, 2024. Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the online marketplace Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison in 2015. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Jim Watson/AFP via Getty...Read More
When you think of the internet’s hidden depths, the Dark Web probably comes to mind – a place where anonymity is king, and the rules of the surface world don’t apply. But what if there’s something deeper? Something so elusive, so enigmatic, that even the Dark Web pales in comparison? Enter what is know as...Read More
The BBC World Service podcast World of Secrets returns with a six-part investigation into child sexual abuse networks operating on the dark web. World of Secrets: The Darkest Web follows US agent Greg Squire and a global group of undercover investigators as they infiltrate encrypted forums used to share illegal material and evade detection. The...Read More
A coroner has issued a warning over the dangers of ordering drugs on the dark web after a dad-of-one died after taking a substance described as 20 times more potent than fentanyl. It follows the sudden death of Jay Woolsey from Portadown, who was found on 9th August 2024. The 33-year-old, who was a father...Read More
