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.

In September, the police officer was arrested along with two computer scientists and sentenced to two years of probation, with the information entered into an automatic judicial file for sex offenders.

Kaspersky said that according to its tests, "OnionPoison" targets victims located in China because its C2 server checks whether the external IP address of the victim's machine is from China. Kaspersky reminded Chinese users to check whether the Tor browser they use is downloaded from the official one.

According to the latest status of the hacker's posting on the Breached.to forum, the hacker has not released the secret conversations of the Prime Minister's Office that were "bugged" as scheduled, and several users are replying to the post asking when it will be released. Meanwhile, according to Twitter's user status, the hacker's @Indishellgp Twitter account has been deactivated.

The ransomware gang, named after the Guy Ritchie-directed movie, targeted the most exclusive farm stores in the British Cotswolds and their celebrity customers.