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.

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.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Ohio, Smith "purchased more than 600 stolen debit and credit card accounts from the dark web, affecting victims in 25 states."

Defendant Edison Hernandez is alleged to have been a highly rated supplier of illegal drugs on dark web marketplaces such as Silk Road, AlphaBay, Dream Market, and WallStreet Market. From January 2013 through April 2019, Hernandez advertised and sold heroin and cocaine to U.S. customers through these dark web marketplaces.

Pham is a methamphetamine supplier to dark web marketplaces, using the alias "addy4cheap" on both the Empire Market and Cryptonia dark web marketplaces.

The RansomHouse ransom group released a sample of the data it had and claimed that it was easy to access because AMD used generic passwords. These include the word "password", as well as "123456" and "AMD!23".