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According to a recent report from Chainalysis, Bitcoin’s use on the dark web largely on drugs and other crimes such as child porn, narcotics, is going to reach about $1 billion this year. However, the amount of Bitcoin spent on dark web had a surge two years ago (2017). Chainalysys specializes in helping companies to prevent … Read more
Maybe everyone knows about cybercrime and maybe we are the victims but we don’t know. But no one knows the value of the information and the personal data they steal from us. Cybercriminals sell information and data on the Dark Web for as little as $ 50 (3,500 rupees). The information from Internet users that … Read more
Each time abuse material is shared, the victim is revictimised. Chinnapong | Shutterstock In the seven years since the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse launched in 2015, it has held more than 300 days of public hearings, processed over 2 million pages of evidence, heard from over 700 witnesses, and engaged with over 7,000 … Read more
Getty Images New Zealand is generally proud of being a world leader, but there’s one claim that might not be universally admired: being home to the longest running English-language market for illegal drugs on the so-called “darknet”. Known as “Tor Market”, it has been active since March 2018 and has outlived several larger and better … Read more
T. Schneider/Shutterstock Shortly after Australian telecommunications company Optus announced the identity data of millions of customers had been stolen, a person claiming to be the hacker announced they would delete the data for US$1 million. When Optus didn’t pay, the purported hacker published 10,000 stolen records and threatened to release ten thousand more every day … Read more
Shutterstock Child sexual abuse material is rampant online, despite considerable efforts by big tech companies and governments to curb it. And according to reports, it has only become more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic. This material is largely hosted on the anonymous part of the internet — the “darknet” – where perpetrators can share it … Read more
The black market for stolen personal information motivates most data breaches. aleksey-martynyuk/iStock via Getty Images Data breaches have become common, and billions of records are stolen worldwide every year. Most of the media coverage of data breaches tends to focus on how the breach happened, how many records were stolen and the financial and legal … Read more