German Authorities Take Down Darknet Marketplace ‘Nemesis Market’
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작성자 Nancee 작성일 24-04-08 18:28 조회 9회 댓글 0건본문
German authorities have seized the server infrastructure of the darknet market Nemesis Market, which facilitated the sale of narcotics, fraudulently obtained data, and offered a choice of other cybercrime services, including ransomware.
Police found and seized the Nemesis Market servers in Germany and Lithuania, shutting down a number of unlawful operations and confiscating some 94,000 euros in cryptocurrency. No arrests have been made so far.
Like most darknet marketplaces, mega darknet market Nemesis was accessible through the Tor community.
"The operators of the Darknet web site are particularly suspected of commercially working criminal buying and selling platforms on the internet and of committing crimes towards the Narcotics Act," Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said in a press release.
The seizure is the results of parallel investigations and shut coordination between German, American and Lithuanian regulation enforcement authorities, including the FBI, DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) and IRS-CI (Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation) since October 2022.
The underground market was based in 2021 and grew to achieve over 150,000 customers and more than 1,100 vendor accounts registered worldwide. Almost 20 percent of the accounts have been based in Germany. Nemesis was used not simply to sell narcotics, but also fraudulently obtained knowledge and goods, as well as ransomware, phishing, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and other cybercrime services.
"The seized market knowledge kinds the basis for further investigations against criminal sellers and customers of the platform," German authorities said, in line with a machine-translated version of the announcement. "The shutdown and prosecution are an additional blow to underground financial system actors working on the dark internet and show the effectiveness of international law enforcement in the digital area."
This is only the newest in a string of hits by German authorities in opposition to underground web operators. Earlier this month, German police seized the unlawful online buying and selling platform Crimemarket and arrested three folks believed to be involved within the operation.