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The illicit marketplace AlphaBay appears to have resurfaced, four years after a high-profile takedown by international law enforcement agencies. Rather, the reconstituted version of the site is described as an homage to the original and a tribute to the now deceased alleged AlphaBay moderator Alexandre Cazes.
The AlphaBay darkweb market has come back to life after an administrator of the original project relaunched it over the weekend. AlphaBay started in 2014 and it became the largest darknet market.
A Colorado man was sentenced this week to eleven years in prison for his role as a moderator on the AlphaBay cybercrime marketplace. When taken down in 2017, AlphaBay was the most popular Dark Web marketplace for illegal products, and had over 400,000 users.
A former moderator for the now-defunct AlphaBay darknet marketplace site pleaded guilty this week to a federal racketeering charge and could face 20 years in federal prison, according to the U.S. Justice Department. As a moderator on the AlphaBay site, Herrell settled over 20,000 disputes between vendors and purchasers, according to court papers.
Investigation Into Shuttered Darknet Site ContinuesAn alleged moderator of the AlphaBay underground marketplace has been indicted for facilitating sales on the darknet site before law enforcement...
Investigation Into Shuttered Darknet Site ContinuesAn alleged moderator of the AlphaBay underground marketplace has been indicted for facilitating sales on the darknet site before law enforcement...
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A deep dive into the takedowns of AlphaBay and Hansa, and their impact on the secretive illicit darknet marketplace leads the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, a puzzling breach at...
U.S. authorities along with law enforcement Europe and Asia announced today the takedown of the dark web’s largest illicit market, AlphaBay.