Thanks to a legal execution, the largest market on the Dark Web was shut down. We tell you everything that is known in this note!
A legal execution in Germany definitively closed the servers of one of the largest markets in the Dark Web, Hydra Market. This was announced at a press conference of the Central Office to Combat Cybercrime (ZIT) and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) of Germany.
At the conference, it was reported that the platform was shut down and seized bitcoin with an estimated value of 24.6 million dollars. What has been confirmed is that no arrests have been made at this time. The market Hydra Market it was apparently run by Russians and used to sell drugs and launder money. It was also used to distribute stolen cybercrime databases, documents, tools and services.
Hydra had around 19,000 accounts of registered sellers and more than 17 million of clients all over the world. Law enforcement agencies say the market had a turnover of 1.35 billion dollars in 2020. The last time one of the sites in the Dark Web was closed was in 2013, when silk road was closed.
this market, silk roadcame out in 2011 and became quite popular in the market underground. People who used this market used to buy drugs, but fake driver’s licenses were also offered as well as malware Y ransomware. The site was closed in 2013 by the FBI and arrested its founder, Ross Ulbricht. Ulbricht He was convicted of seven felonies and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
after it was closed silk road, several other markets came out. Among these were The Farmer’s Market, Atlantis, Project Black Flag, Black Market Reloaded and Wall Street Market, markets that are currently closed. It is good news that these types of markets are closing, since several of the pages of the Dark Web they distribute content that should not be distributed in the first place.