Video clips taken from thousands of hacked "smart home" cameras showing victims naked and even having sex are being sold online.

In an official announcement, the operators of Cannazon, a dark web marketplace, said the DDoS attack was not the reason for the shutdown, but it provided an opportunity to shut down the site, which was the plan all along.

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The group brought in at least 425,000 euros (£360,000) and may have gained access to government systems or obtained encryption keys from national health authorities.

Despite the closure of these cracked-down marketplaces, the trading market space on the dark web appears to continue to thrive as users choose to easily flee to other markets that are still accessible.

The Tor Project has announced that it will offer hoodies, T-shirts and stickers to encourage Tor relay maintainers to get the number of bridge servers back up.

Tor can do a lot of things, but it is also vulnerable to different types of attacks. The more resources an attacker has, the more likely he is to crack Tor. however, this is expensive, so permanent de-anonymization of all users is not possible. On the other hand, a targeted attack on individuals is conceivable.

Analysts at SOS Intelligence searched the dark web for providers of SS7 exploit services and found that the four surviving sites all claim to offer SMS blocking and spoofing, location tracking, and call blocking and redirection services, but without exception they are all scams.

Money launderers, cyber criminals and terrorists find cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Monero, Ripple and Zcash very convenient when transacting on dark networks such as TOR and Freenet because of their anonymity and untraceability.

Data is a popular commodity on the dark web, where people buy and sell sensitive information, much of which is stolen through cyber vulnerabilities. Usernames, passwords, account numbers, financial records, credit card details, medical records - all of these are available for access.