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Vendors on carding and darknet markets convert crypto to fiat through a mix of commercial crypto‑fiat rails (crypto cards, payment gateways, exchanges) and illicit intermediaries: OTC brokers, mixers,...
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”;...
Law enforcement investigates dark‑web carding through a blend of traditional investigative methods (seizing marketplaces, arresting operators) and technical intelligence (monitoring forums, tracking p...
There is no clear, verifiable evidence in the provided reporting that law enforcement definitively seized or permanently took down Brian’s Club in 2025; contemporary sources document hacks, temporary ...
After high-profile takedowns such as Silk Road (shut by the FBI in October 2013) and AlphaBay (seized during Operation Bayonet in 2017), a succession of marketplaces rose to occupy the vacuum — first ...
Since 2020 the darknet-market ecosystem has fragmented from a handful of mega‑markets toward smaller, specialized and sometimes invite‑only platforms, with revenue flows shifting (DNMs received just o...
Law enforcement tracks and disrupts dark‑web credit‑card vendors using a mix of blockchain/crypto forensics, undercover operations and seizures of infrastructure and domains; international operations ...
Dark‑web infrastructure has grown more decentralized, privacy‑focused, and resilient in response to frequent law‑enforcement takedowns, while police and international task forces have sharpened techni...