- The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has arrested individuals operating an international drug trafficking group- Singh DTO (Drug Trafficking Organisation)
- They used vendor marketing sites on the dark web and numerous free advertisements on clear web websites.
- A network of narcotics and controlled substance distributors and cells to sell drugs in the U.S., the U.K. and other European countries.
- They used the moniker “Liston” on a variety of dark web markets, including Silk Road 1, Alpha Bay, and Hansa.
- As per information, they received at least 8,088 bitcoins associated with the ‘Liston’ moniker.
Dark Web
- US in the 1990s drove efforts to develop an anonymized and encrypted network.
- This secret network would not be known or accessible to ordinary internet surfers.
- Some of the researchers tweaked it to launch a nonprofit focused on anonymity for human rights and privacy activists.
- The Tor network, short for “The Onion Router,” given the many layers of encryption that guard passing information.
- Tor serves as the underlying technology of the dark web—a collection of hidden sites inaccessible via a regular browser and not indexed by search engines.
- Today, over 65,000 unique URLs ending with .onion exist on the Tor network. The pairing of dark web services with cryptocurrencies has led to a boom in crime.
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