The United States Department of Justice has dealt a blow to dark web drug traffickers by arresting a man alleged to operate the dark web drugs marketplace Incognito Market.
According to a DOJ press release, the alleged operator of a darknet platform sold over $100 million worth of narcotics worldwide.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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Incognito Market, a darknet platform connecting sellers of narcotics to potential buyers, has turned out to be not entirely trustworthy.
Back in 2020, law enforcement agents across Europe had a major breakthrough in their fight against organised crime. They managed to crack into EncroChat - a secure encrypted messaging service which ran on modified Android phones, that promised "worry-free secure communications".
But investigators managed to gain full control of EncroChat's infrastructure, and could read users' supposedly-encrypted messages in real-time.
Want to sell some cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), crystal meth, or magic mushrooms?
Twitter could be the place for you. And the site isn't going to do anything to shut down your account.
Drug dealers come unstuck while using the Encrochat encrypted-messaging app, and we put the Lensa AI’s avatar-generation tool under the microscope.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Plus – don’t miss our featured interview with Rico Acosta, IT manager at Bitwarden.