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Laundering challenges grow in crypto world
Published on 11/07/2024
» Suspect digital wallets have distributed close to $100 billion in illicit funds across the cryptocurrency market since 2019, flows that often touch popular stablecoins and centralised exchanges, according to a new report.
Online video games, the latest hunting grounds for drug cartels
AFP, Published on 20/12/2023
» STRASBOURG (FRANCE) - Narcotics police the world over are sprucing up their video game skills, as cartels go increasingly online to sell drugs and recruit dealers.
Nearly 300 arrested in US-Europe dark web drug bust
AFP, Published on 03/05/2023
» THE HAGUE - A multi-continental crackdown has halted a major "dark web" drugs marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than 50 million euros ($54.8 million) in cash and virtual currency, Europol said Tuesday.
International arrests over 'criminal' crypto exchange
AFP, Published on 19/01/2023
» WASHINGTON: The owner of China-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato was arrested in Miami on Wednesday, along with five associates in Europe, during an international operation against "darknet" markets.
The true meaning of being safe on the internet
Oped, Published on 06/08/2022
» When we talk about cybersecurity, we usually think of commercial antivirus software, ransomware attacks on large corporations or leaks of politically scandalous emails. But little is said about public security in the digital realm, and that is a big problem when we increasingly depend on information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the Internet of Things to carry out our ordinary daily activities.
Report calls out rising extremism in Canada military
AFP, Published on 26/04/2022
» OTTAWA - The number of white supremacists and other violent extremists within Canada's military is growing at an "alarming rate" and commanders are not doing enough to root it out, a report said Monday.
Germany smashes darknet child porn network with 400,000 members
AFP, Published on 03/05/2021
» BERLIN: German police said on Monday they had shut down "one of the biggest darknet child pornography platforms in the world" and arrested four of its members in a series of raids in mid-April.
Global darknet child porn probe leads to 337 arrests
AFP, Published on 17/10/2019
» WASHINGTON - International law enforcement authorities announced Wednesday that a global investigation into child pornography sold for bitcoin on the underground internet had reaped 337 arrests and the shutdown of the dark web's most notorious pedophile site.
German police shut down major 'darknet' illegal trading site
AFP, Published on 04/05/2019
» BERLIN - German police have shut down one of the world's largest illegal online markets in the so-called darkweb and arrested the three men allegedly running it, prosecutors said Friday.
Regulators push digital literacy
Business, Darana Chudasri, Published on 08/09/2018
» As more transactions use cryptocurrency, the public should become digitally literate to guard against scams, authorities say.