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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Law enforcement has arrested multiple people for producing, possessing, or distributing AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in a series of cases and multinational operations; notable examp...
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...
Reporting collected for this briefing does not include a documented, authoritative law-enforcement operation specifically describing the takedown or disruption of a darknet site called “Venus Market”;...
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...
Federal law does not criminalize mere use of Tor or visiting hidden services, but a suite of federal statutes and recent enforcement actions make accessing, facilitating, or transacting on illicit dar...
Available reporting does not identify a single “400‑ton cocaine trafficking case.” Major recent law‑enforcement releases describe multi‑ton seizures (for example, 2.37 tonnes from a semi‑submersible a...
Multiple fact-checks show the viral image claiming “Indian migrants” (or migrants from Algeria) dressed as sheep to reach Spain is miscaptioned: reverse-image searches trace the photo to 2024 performa...
If you accidentally encounter illegal porn — especially images or videos involving minors or non‑consensual material — immediate steps recommended by multiple authorities are: stop viewing or sharing,...