While Ross Ulbricht, the accused operator of the first Silk Road Marketplace, remains in trial in New York, a new version of the deep web site, named Silk Road 2.0, has been launched yesterday. The launch was announced through the Twitter account of Dread Pirate Roberts, the pseudonym Ulbricht allegedly used while operating the site. Figure…
Read MoreEarlier, we published a blog post talking about the recent shut down of the Silk Road marketplace. There, we promised to release a new white paper looking at cybercrime activity on the Deep Web in more detail. This paper can now be found on our site here. While the Deep Web has often been uniquely associated…
Read MoreThe infamous Silk Road marketplace is probably the most well-known place online for anyone wanting to purchase all sorts of illegal goods – ranging from illicit drugs, to firearms and all the way up to hitmen-for-hire. Yesterday, after two and half years in operation, the site was shut down by the FBI and its owner…
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