In this article, we will list the top 5 dark web marketplaces in the world, which means that these residual dark web marketplaces are where some criminals operate, so as always, it is important to emphasize that "the security of these sites cannot be guaranteed" and advise people not to buy anything illegal on the dark web.

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.

Launched three years ago, the Versus dark web marketplace was very popular among the cybercrime community, offering drugs, coin mixing, hacking services, stolen payment cards and the buying and selling of compromised databases. After discovering a serious vulnerability that could have allowed access to its database and exposed the IP addresses of its servers, the administrators of the Versus marketplace chose to shut down the site.

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.

After Russia's largest dark web marketplace, Hydra, was shut down a few days ago by German and U.S. police, there is speculation about who will be the next "leader" in the industry among the remaining dark web marketplaces.

The Chinese dark web marketplace "ChangAnBuYeCheng" was launched at the beginning of 2022, most probably relying on the advertisement of "onion666 dark web directory".But in just a few months, it has achieved a small popularity in the industry, which is very fast for a new dark web trading platform.

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'".

World Market has completed a complete "exit scam", but the site has not shut down yet and is trying to continue playing the "exit scam" game, it has been DDOS attacking other dark web markets, really evil intentions! There is no humanity in the dark web, only endless scams!

The Hydra market, based in Russia, has grown so much, and it is absolutely certain that the marketplace cannot be developed without the strong support of the Russian government, and of course, on another level, the Hydra market earns billions of dollars a year.

With the closure and withdrawal of a number of listed dark web trading marketplaces, there are not so many large global dark web trading marketplaces left on the dark web. Foreign media summarized the top 5 global darknet markets that are still alive in March 2022.