Industrial Spy operates an extortion marketplace on the dark web, selling data stolen from victim companies, from selling "premium" data for millions of dollars to selling individual files for as little as $2 and even offering free downloads of the data.

Germany handed over to Ukrainian security forces materials obtained as a result of the seizure of the Hydra dark web marketplace, which allowed Ukraine to begin detaining citizens involved in Hydra's work, and arrests of those involved are now taking place simultaneously in several Ukrainian cities.

Guardian readers can now read the daily news in the Tor network. The Guardian's dark web V3 domain is https://www.guardian2zotagl6tmjucg3lrhxdk4dw3lhbqnkvvkywawy3oqfoprid.onion, please bookmark it.

The city of Schlissheim, Germany, informed hundreds of citizens about the dark web data. About a month ago, unidentified individuals hacked into the city's IT systems, and these cybercriminals used malware ("ransomware") to encrypt the city's servers. They did not demand a ransom, but threatened to release the data on the dark web. After the deadline passed, their stolen internal documents were leaked on the Dark Web.

Jumpol Phansamrit, director of foreign affairs at the Thai attorney general's office, said the court accepted the prosecutor's request to order the seizure of huge assets owned by the late Canadian national Alexandre Cazes and to discuss with the United States how to share the money.

After analyzing REvil's dark web site, "ODN" believes that REvil has indeed made a comeback, and that it is not a phishing operation of the Russian Federal Security Service.

Car owners are at risk of being sold online criminals' guides to car theft, from how to steal a keyless car to hacking into an Uber account, according to new research by British police. Worrying statistics reveal a dark web of people willing to trade criminal knowledge for small amounts of money.

Russia arrested the co-founder of the dark web platform Hydra a week after U.S. and German authorities said they would investigate the platform, according to reports. A court spokesman told Russian media that the suspect is Dmitry Olegovich Pavlov, an exact match to the name in the U.S. Justice Department's indictment.

Ransomware has become an escalating global security threat, whether to government departments, large and medium-sized enterprises or specific individuals, can cause serious security and economic risks, how to effectively prevent ransomware attacks has become a focal issue in the field of network security.

The German Federal Criminal Police Office said in a statement that the suspects are being investigated for "operating a criminal trading platform on the Internet in a commercial manner," selling drugs and other charges. The statement was titled "Shutting down the illegal dark web marketplace 'Hydra Market'".