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Empire Market Co-Founder Gets 40 Years in Darknet Case
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October 9, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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How an email address ousted AlphaBay - Negative PID
In July 2017, one of the most ambitious global cyber operations ever executed quietly brought down the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web: AlphaBay.
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August 26, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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סגירת השוק האפל AlphaBay: האם מדובר בפריצת דרך או בגנבה מסודרת?

https://khesef.xyz/posts/950E0BF9-FCD0-474F-ACA3-26EC436D102B
July 23, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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暗网市场AlphaBay关闭:用户恐慌退出诈骗事件分析

https://qian.cx/posts/BC9E175C-3F73-4F33-BF04-817082C7B299
July 23, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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AlphaBay: Падение тёмного рынка и страхи пользователей перед мошенничеством

https://kripta.biz/posts/8CCFC283-88EA-4B43-AAF7-FAE9C799A1D4
July 23, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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חששות לגבי 'יציאה עם כסף' גדלים כשרשת הסמים AlphaBay נשארת חשוכה שבוע לאחר

https://khesef.xyz/posts/07CA9F5D-42AF-4B1D-BCE3-8E1F282A6F49
July 23, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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暗网毒品市场AlphaBay消失一周 专家警惕"出逃骗局"风险

https://qian.cx/posts/E98F369E-04E7-4F8C-8EB6-9B1C47F9B390
July 23, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Тревога по поводу возможного "Exit Scam" на AlphaBay: рынок остается в темноте уже неделю

https://kripta.biz/posts/64C7D995-6475-40F0-8A63-FF3A2D6816FA
July 23, 2026 at 11:10 PM
qiancx.bsky.social
荷兰警方追踪AlphaBay"难民":暗网市场的黑暗生态与执法挑战

https://qian.cx/posts/4449979B-AF5A-4360-A0EB-B484C2F738BD
July 23, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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Голландская полиция и беженцы с AlphaBay: как темная сторона интернета пересекается с реальностью

https://kripta.biz/posts/CC17664F-D97D-49BE-9D92-9FAD24FB0400
July 23, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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'Grootste zwarte markt op dark web opgerold bij politieactie'
'Grootste zwarte markt op dark web opgerold bij politieactie'
De Amerikaanse, Canadese en Thaise politie hebben samengewerkt om de beheerders van de website Alphabay op te sporen.
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July 2, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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US charges alleged Dream Market admin Owe Martin Andresen with 12 money laundering counts. Prosecutors say he moved millions in crypto and gold tied to dark web proceeds. #Germany #DreamMarket #Speedstepper
US charges suspected Dream Market admin arrested in Germany
The alleged main administrator of Dream Market, Owe Martin Andresen, has been indicted in the United States for money laundering tied to the dark web marketplace’s illicit proceeds. Prosecutors say he moved millions through cryptocurrency wallets and gold purchases, while related cases have already led to convictions and prison sentences for other dark web marketplace operators. #DreamMarket #OweMartinAndresen #IncognitoMarket #Hansa #AlphaBay #Speedstepper
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May 14, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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EFTA00149061 | EFTA00149064 LEADING THE NEWS Nearly 200 Arrested, $6.5 Million Seized In Worldwide Oploid Bust. The AP (9/22) reports that according to the Justice Department, 179 people have been arrested and "$6.5M seized in worldwide crackdown on opioid trafficking on darknet." The Cincinnati Enquirer (9/22, Knight, 223K) quotes FBI Director Wray as saying, "With the spike in opioidrelated overdose deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic, we recognize that today's announcement is important and timely. ... The FBI will continue to use all investigative techniques and tools to identify and prosecute Darknet opioid dealers, wherever they may be located." Domestically, adds the Enquirer, "the operation lasted nine months and resulted in prosecutions in California, Georgia, Virginia and Texas." BBC News Online (VS) (9/22, 1.02M) reports that "the operation, known as DisrupTor, was a joint effort between the Department of Justice and Europol," and Voice of America (9/22, 48K) that "most of the arrests took place in the United States, while others were apprehended in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, Austria and Sweden." USA Today (9/22, Phillips, 10.31M) reports, "Investigators have seized more than $6.5 million in cash and virtual currencies, as well as 500 kilograms of drugs worldwide, including more than 200 kilograms of heroin, cocaine, and various kinds of opioids - a haul that officials said made a significant dent in online drug trafficking." USA Today adds, "Darknet sites, which exist on encrypted networks and aren't easily accessible, have enabled drug traffickers to create a new kind of `criminal underworld' that allowed them to sell and advertise from anywhere in the world, Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said. `For an increasing number of young addicts, opioids are purchased not from local dealers but from pushers online,' Rosen said. `Hiding behind anonymizing software known as Tor, a new sort of drug kingpin now is able to reach more buyers than ever before, through online marketplaces peddling every sort of illicit good and service imaginable." CyberScoop (9/22, Lyngaas) reports, "The alleged drug dealers are accused of advertising on infamous dark-web sites such as AlphaBay and Dream," and "the takedown...involved investigators from Austria, Cyprus, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the U.S." CNET News (9/22, Ng, 1.99M) reports, "The majority of the arrests took place in the US with 121 cases, followed by 42 cases in Germany, eight cases in the Netherlands, four cases in the United Kingdom, three cases in Austria and one case in Sweden. Police said investigations are still ongoing to identify people behind these dark web accounts." According to CNET News, "The operation announced on Tuesday was the `largest ... to date' for the US against the dark web," Rosen said, and "charges included those against a group called `Pill Cosby' that allegedly distributed more than 1 million fentanyl-laced pills in Ohio and against a man who allegedly bought data that belonged to a murdered couple in Georgia. Prosecutors in Virginia also charged someone who allegedly sought to bomb a competing drug dealer, according to the Justice Department." Wired (9/22, Barrett, 3.49M) quotes Director Wray as saying, "In some ways this is just the perfect storm combination of traditional criminal activity of all shapes and sizes merging with this more sophisticated technology. But the point of today's announcement is it doesn't matter where you go to try to do it or how you try to hide it, we're coming for you." ABC News (9/22, Barr, 2.97M) reports that Director Wray "told ABC News that the darknet is a 'perfect storm' of traditional crime and cyber crime. Acting Drug Enforcement Administration head Tim Shea, said many of the drugs are coming from Mexico. 'At the same time, we've seen an increase in fentanyl deaths, and that's synthetic opioids, which is a major threat emanating from Mexico, drugs, produced on industrial scale in Mexico are shipped to the United States using the dark-web,' Shea said." EFTA00149064
April 22, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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EFTA00085684 | EFTA00085702 On Dream Market, Castro once boasted about 3,200 transactions that he had completed on various dark web marketplaces. Out of these 3,200 transactions, 1,800 transactions were successfully completed on AlphaBay alone. The conspirators apparently also received many positive reviews for the quality of synthetic opioid substance they were selling. In June 218, Castro informed his clients that he would only accept orders received by encrypted emails and declared the organization is getting the business off from the dark web. Customers who wanted to buy narcotics had to acquire the address of the encrypted email from "Chems_usa" by paying certain fees. Unfortunately for Castro, an undercover law enforcement officer also obtained the encrypted email and placed an order, which ultimately led to his arrest. Castro was accepting the payments in Bitcoin which were later distributed in seven different BTC wallets. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: "As he admitted today, for years, Richard Castro used the dark web to distribute prolific quantities of powerful opioids, including fentanyl and carfentanil. Castro thought he could hide behind the anonymity of the intemet, and use online pseudonyms to deal drugs — like `Chems_usa' and `Chemical_usa.' Thanks to our law enforcement partners, `Chems_usa' is now in U.S. prison." Castro has agreed to forfeit $4,156,198.18 including the funds on those seven Bitcoin wallets. Rochester Drug Company Distributor Has Been Shipping Excess Opioids to Small Towns Legal Reader By Sara E. Teller 7/31/19 Miami-Luken Inc., an Ohio drug wholesale distributor, and four people including two former executives have been charged with selling millions of pills amid the opioid epidemic despite knowing the dangers. The indictment charged the Springboro, Ohio-based company; Anthony Rattini, the company's former president; James Barlay, former compliance officer, and two pharmacists with "conspiring to distribute controlled substances." Prosecutors have alleged "Miami-Luken ignored obvious signs that drugs were being diverted to illegal users and dealers between 2011 and 2015." The company was shipping 4.9 million pills to MillerWest's drugstore in Oceana, W.Va., where the population is just under 1,400. "Miami-Luken and the executives failed to guard against the dangerous drugs it was shipping to pharmacies in five states from being diverted for illegal uses or to report suspicious orders to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration," they added. The distributor shipped millions of pills to desolate and rural areas of Appalachia which was hit especially hard by the epidemic. "Records show Miami-Luken also distributed 3.7 million hydrocodone pills from 2008 to 2011 to a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, a town of just 400 people," prosecutors said. The pharmacists charged were Devonna Miller-West, the owner of Oceana, West Virginia's Westside Pharmacy, and Samuel Ballengee, owner of Williamson, West Virginia's Tug Valley Pharmacy. The company was also shipping some to other "unnamed pharmacists and physicians," the indictment alleged. "There's a need, in my opinion, to devote sufficient charges right here and now to stop the dying," United States Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman said, adding investigators found "many overdose deaths that could arguably be linked to the conduct of people accused in the conspiracy." EFTA00085702
April 20, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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EFTA00085684 | EFTA00085701 Millul, a Manhattan jeweler opened a brokerage account on March 13, 2016, and shortly thereafter purchased 480 shares of Valspar common stock, case records show. On March 18, 2016, the last trading day before the acquisition was publicly announced, Millul also purchased 75 out-of-the-money Valspar call options, according to case records. After the acquisition was publicly announced, Millul sold his Valspar stock and options for approximately $106,806 in profits, Berman said. Oujaddou, a Manhattan hairstylist and salon owner who has known Pinto-Thomaz for years and is a close friend with his mother, was given inside information during a haircut on March 8 or 9, 2016, according to case records. On March 10 through March 18, 2016, Oujaddou, who had never previously purchased Valspar or Sherwin-Williams purchased 8,630 shares of Valspar stock, case records show. After the acquisition was publicly announced, Oujaddou sold his Valspar shares for approximately $192,080 in profits, according to case records. Following the trading, Oujaddou met Pinto-Thomaz in the paint aisle of a hardware store and paid him a kickback, Berman said. Pinto-Thomaz denied having a relationship with anyone on the list of pre-merger trading. In addition to his prison term, Pinto-Thomaz was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a fine of $15,000 and a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $7,500. Millul and Oujaddou each previously pled guilty and were to be sentenced on July 30. Narcotics Castro Drug Dealer Forfeits Over $41%,1 in Bitcoin as Part of a Guilty Plea All Stocks By Ravi Rd 7/31/19 According to a July 25 press release from the United States Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York, the very active Bitcoin drug dealer Richard Castro has pleaded guilty of committing illicit activities such as money laundering and distributing three controlled substances through the dark web and encrypted emails. Castro was charged by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and agreed to forfeit more than $4 million including cryptocurrency funds available in his seven different Bitcoin wallets. Castro, 36-year-old based in Windermere, Florida, operated under multiple badges, such as "Chems_usa," "Chemical_usa" and "Jagger109" to distribute three controlled opioid substances namely carfentanil, fentanyl, and phenyl fentanyl. Dream Market and AlphaBay were two of his primary market places on the dark web, where he sold drugs in exchange for cryptocurrency. The three controlled opioid substances were sold from November 2015 to 2019 by Castro and another coconspirator, Luis Fernandez. Fentanyl, the first of these three is considered to be significantly stronger than heroin while Carfentanil is believed to be 100 times stronger than fentanyl. Castro sold these substances under the three aforementioned monikers which ultimately used to prove that he is indeed the leader of this conspiracy. EFTA00085701
April 20, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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EFTA00069900 | EFTA00069918 Castro, 36-year-old based in Windermere, Florida, operated under multiple badges, such as "Chems_usa," "Chemical_usa" and "Jagger109" to distribute three controlled opioid substances namely carfentanil, fentanyl, and phenyl fentanyl. Dream Market and AlphaBay were two of his primary market places on the dark web, where he sold drugs in exchange for cryptocurrency. The three controlled opioid substances were sold from November 2015 to 2019 by Castro and another coconspirator, Luis Fernandez. Fentanyl, the first of these three is considered to be significantly stronger than heroin while Carfentanil is believed to be 100 times stronger than fentanyl. Castro sold these substances under the three aforementioned monikers which ultimately used to prove that he is indeed the leader of this conspiracy. On Dream Market, Castro once boasted about 3,200 transactions that he had completed on various dark web marketplaces. Out of these 3,200 transactions, 1,800 transactions were successfully completed on AlphaBay alone. The conspirators apparently also received many positive reviews for the quality of synthetic opioid substance they were selling. In June 218, Castro informed his clients that he would only accept orders received by encrypted emails and declared the organization is getting the business off from the dark web. Customers who wanted to buy narcotics had to acquire the address of the encrypted email from "Chems_usa" by paying certain fees. Unfortunately for Castro, an undercover law enforcement officer also obtained the encrypted email and placed an order, which ultimately led to his arrest. Castro was accepting the payments in Bitcoin which were later distributed in seven different BTC wallets. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said: "As he admitted today, for years, Richard Castro used the dark web to distribute prolific quantities of powerful opioids, including fentanyl and carfentanil. Castro thought he could hide behind the anonymity of the intemet, and use online pseudonyms to deal drugs — like thems_usa' and `Chemical_usa.' Thanks to our law enforcement partners, `Chems_usa' is now in U.S. prison." Castro has agreed to forfeit $4,156,198.18 including the funds on those seven Bitcoin wallets. Rochester Drug Company Distributor Has Been Shipping Excess Opioids to Small Towns Legal Reader By Sara E. Teller 7/31/19 Miami-Luken Inc., an Ohio drug wholesale distributor, and four people including two former executives have been charged with selling millions of pills amid the opioid epidemic despite knowing the dangers. The indictment charged the Springboro, Ohio-based company; Anthony Rattini, the company's former president; James Barlay, former compliance officer, and two pharmacists with "conspiring to distribute controlled substances." Prosecutors have alleged "Miami-Luken ignored obvious signs that drugs were being diverted to illegal users and dealers between 2011 and 2015." The company was shipping 4.9 million pills to Miller-West's drugstore in Oceana, W.Va., where the population is just under 1,400. "Miami-Luken and the executives failed to guard against the dangerous drugs it was shipping to pharmacies in five states from being diverted for illegal uses or to report suspicious orders to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration," they added. The distributor shipped millions of pills to desolate and rural areas of Appalachia which was hit especially hard by the epidemic. "Records show Miami-Luken also distributed 3.7 million hydrocodone pills from 2008 to 2011 EFTA00069918
April 20, 2026 at 8:00 AM
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How an email address ousted AlphaBay
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How an email address ousted AlphaBay - Negative PID
In July 2017, one of the most ambitious global cyber operations ever executed quietly brought down the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web: AlphaBay.
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April 12, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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How an email address ousted AlphaBay - Negative PID
In July 2017, one of the most ambitious global cyber operations ever executed quietly brought down the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web: AlphaBay.
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April 4, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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How an email address ousted AlphaBay
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March 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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In July 2017, one of the most ambitious global cyber operations ever executed quietly brought down the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web: AlphaBay.
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March 16, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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How an email address ousted AlphaBay
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How an email address ousted AlphaBay - Negative PID
In July 2017, one of the most ambitious global cyber operations ever executed quietly brought down the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web: AlphaBay.
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March 10, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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How an email address ousted AlphaBay
How an email address ousted AlphaBay - PID Perspectives
In July 2017, one of the most ambitious global cyber operations ever executed quietly brought down the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web: AlphaBay.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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After the FBI dismantled the Silk Road, another dark net marketplace took its place: AlphaBay. The international operation to take it down was a masterclass in cooperation and out-of-the-box thinking.

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How an email address ousted AlphaBay - PID Perspectives
In July 2017, one of the most ambitious global cyber operations ever executed quietly brought down the largest illegal marketplace on the dark web: AlphaBay.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:20 AM