Security News > 2018 > July > Fake Bitcoin exchange traps drug dealers on the dark web
2018-07-02 14:37
As around 35 alleged drug vendors have found out to their cost, you never know who you’ll meet on the dark web. In the case of the customers of one money laundering operation, it turned out to be agents working for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
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