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There are documented cases where law enforcement used AI-chat logs or AI-related activity as leads in CSAM investigations, and prosecutors have charged people for creating or possessing AI-generated C...
Contemporary reporting shows a string of foiled and prosecuted plots aimed at Christmas markets and gatherings in Europe in 2025, with several arrests tied to Islamist-motivated plots or individuals d...
Dark web marketplaces like Silk Road have been dismantled through a mix of classic investigative work—undercover infiltration and arrests—and technical operations including server seizures, cryptocurr...
Darknet vendors overwhelmingly rely on PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) for encrypting messages and verifying identities, while markets and guides also recommend Tor, VPNs, Monero/Bitcoin and in‑platform E2E...
Yes — multiple investigations, seizures and court cases show counterfeit banknotes have been advertised and sold on dark‑web marketplaces and private channels; law enforcement across the U.S. and Euro...
ProtonMail has in practice complied with Swiss court orders that compelled it to collect and turn over limited user data—most famously logging and handing an IP address that helped identify a French a...
Since 2024 a series of coordinated law‑enforcement actions in and have seized or disrupted multiple high‑profile darknet marketplaces — including Nemesis, Kingdom, Crimemarket/Crimenetwork, , Incognit...
A genuine offer on the dark web to trade $1,000 in real currency for $50 worth of cryptocurrency is effectively a scam or part of a criminal laundering scheme rather than a legitimate bargain; the dar...
NCMEC’s CyberTipline collects reports from the public and, primarily, from electronic service providers (ESPs) that are legally required to flag suspected child sexual abuse material; NCMEC analysts t...
Law enforcement has used honeypots and undercover “sting” operations to find people involved in child sexual abuse material (CSAM), with recent coordinated efforts yielding arrests across jurisdiction...
Recent reporting and parliamentary records show a marked uptick in arrests in Europe for online speech, especially in the United Kingdom where custody data and parliamentary debate cite roughly 12,000...
The CyberTipline operated by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) functions as a centralized clearinghouse that receives mandated and voluntary reports of suspected child sexua...
The recent landscape of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) enforcement shows a series of large, coordinated international takedowns that combined dark‑web platform seizures with mass arrests and victi...
Global takedowns and enforcement actions against CSAM have surged and shifted in character over the past five years: law enforcement shut major darknet and surface sites (e.g., Welcome to Video, Dark ...
Traffickers use a wide toolkit to hide or compress drugs on fishing boats and large commercial vessels: common methods include concealing narcotics inside cargo (mixed with legitimate goods), inside s...
darknet crypto payments by converting public blockchain records into investigative leads with a mix of , traditional , undercover operations and legal requests to regulated exchanges; these methods ex...
Darknet marketplaces and vendors launder cryptocurrency by converting illicit receipts into layered, obfuscated on‑chain movements and then cashing out through a mix of privacy tools, intermediaries a...
Law-enforcement attention to BriansClub intensified in 2019 after a massive breach that exposed roughly 26 million stolen credit-card records, triggering coordinated investigations, seizures of data a...
No verifiable case has been documented in the provided reporting where ChatGPT or OpenAI itself made a direct report to law enforcement that led to an arrest; most publicized incidents involve people ...
Carding forums regularly rely on a mix of widely traded coins, privacy-focused tokens and off-ramp services to launder proceeds: mainstream currencies such as Bitcoin and stablecoins like Tether are u...