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President Trump has pardoned several people whose federal convictions involved narcotics trafficking or distribution; among those documented in the reporting provided are former Honduran president Jua...
President Trump has issued clemency to a large and growing number of federal offenders across two nonconsecutive presidencies: 237 acts of clemency (143 pardons, 94 commutations) during his first term...
Styx Market is repeatedly identified in 2023–2025 reporting as a dark web marketplace that focuses on financial fraud, identity theft and money‑laundering services and that uses escrow and vendor‑trus...
Escrow systems on darknet markets are designed to hold cryptocurrency until a buyer confirms receipt, and by 2025 many markets use multisignature (2-of-3) or automated smart‑contract escrow to limit u...
Ross Ulbricht — founder of the Silk Road dark‑web marketplace — was pardoned by President Trump on Jan. 21, 2025 after serving more than a decade; prosecutors had tied Silk Road to more than $200 mill...
Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 on charges tied to operating the dark‑web marketplace Silk Road — including narcotics distribution, money laundering and related offenses — and served a life senten...
Requests for "black market access links" are effectively requests for instructions to reach illegal marketplaces; supplying them would facilitate criminal activity and is unsafe, so this report explai...
Savastan0 and numerous carding-specific shops and forums operated within the underground ecosystem during and after 2019, with evidence of large-scale card inventory and specialized vendor markets; th...
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...
Operation Onion Peeler— the FBI’s investigation that targeted Silk Road and related Tor hidden services—did not “break” Tor’s cryptography but demonstrated that targeted law-enforcement techniques, op...
Dark‑web marketplaces that trade stolen personal data rely on anonymizing networks, cryptocurrencies and market features that mimic legitimate e‑commerce, and they are disrupted through a mix of under...
President Trump has issued thousands of clemency actions this year, including a blanket pardon for roughly 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, mass pardons for “alternate electors” and ...
President Trump issued a “full and unconditional” pardon for Ross Ulbricht — the founder of the Silk Road dark‑web marketplace who had been serving life sentences — and Ulbricht was released from fede...
Arrests stemming from dark‑web searches have no fixed timetable: some cases culminate in arrests within weeks or months when investigators exploit a vulnerability or follow a clear transactional trail...
Available reporting shows that President Trump has issued pardons after 2020 to people convicted of serious drug-related offenses — most prominently Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road) and former Honduran presi...
Blockchain‑forensics firms trace cryptocurrency from dark‑web marketplaces to real‑world accounts by combining immutable on‑chain transaction analysis with off‑chain intelligence (exchanges, IP/device...
Law enforcement combines technical exploitation, financial forensics, human intelligence and international legal muscle to track and shut down dark‑web carding sites: investigators use Tor deanonymiza...
Law enforcement takedowns between 2023–2025 have repeatedly disrupted broad-spectrum dark markets but reporting shows STYX Market (launched 2023) has been a resilient, specialized hub for financial fr...
Tor offers strong network-layer anonymity but user mistakes and certain practical attacks routinely undo that protection; commentators and technical surveys say “human error is the leading cause of de...
Ross Ulbricht was tried and convicted in 2015 on arising from his operation of the Silk Road darknet marketplace; those counts charged narcotics distribution (including internet-based distribution), c...