The U.S. Department of Justice has dismantled an international ransomware network responsible for extorting and attempting to extort hundreds of millions of dollars from victims in the U.S. and around the world. The Hive ransomware ring has extorted hundreds of millions of dollars from more than 1,500 victims in hospitals, schools, financial companies, and critical infrastructure in more than 80 countries around the world.

Police say the sites ("BoyVids 6.0", "Forbidden Love" and "Child Porn Market") have millions of registered users, making them one of the world's largest platforms for sharing images of child abuse.

The seller of the WhatsApp dataset shared a sample of data with Cybernews researchers, with 1,097 UK and 817 US user numbers in the shared sample. cybernews investigated all the numbers included in the sample All of the numbers included in the sample and managed to confirm that all of those mobile numbers were indeed WhatsApp users.

After the domain was seized, Z-Library announced on its official blog that the platform thanked users for their support and apologized to book authors. It also stated that the repository would continue to exist, albeit in a more restricted manner on the dark web.

The U.S. Department of Justice has revealed that it seized $3.36 billion worth of bitcoins last year that were stolen from Silk Road, a notorious dark web marketplace that has been shut down.

DNS records and other information for the blocked domain name indicate that the seizure of the Shadow Library Z-Library domain name was the result of cooperation between the U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the U.S. Department of Justice, presumably as a result of criminal proceedings arising from the site's growing piracy problem.

Before law enforcement crackdowns are taken, cybercrime investigators conduct adult, technically demanding investigations into these cases in secret, and through international police cooperation and data sharing, are often able to identify and eventually arrest suspects operating anonymously on the dark web.

The leak site built through the dark web shows that the Hive ransomware gang has released the data they claim to have stolen from Tata Power, which would indicate that ransom negotiations with Tata Power have failed.

Tor Browser version 11.5 is a major release that brings many new features, including redesigned Tor network settings, HTTPS enabled by default, improved font support, and more.

Cryptocurrency and cybercrime will be the main topics of discussion at Interpol's conference in Delhi, with dark web criminals moving to the crypto ecosystem and the prevalence of crypto-crime reaching an all-time high and getting worse every day. Interpol is determined to combat this new financial scourge.