Hyderabad police arrested three people, including a software employee and an event manager, for allegedly selling drugs sourced via the dark web. MDMA, LSD, hydroponic ganja, and cash were seized. A customer was also detained.

A man who moderated an online forum that blackmailed young girls into taking indecent images or harm themselves has been sentenced after a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.

The ransomeware crew Qilin announced an IT break-in with data theft at Scientology. More precise information is still missing, but some screenshots of documents with personal and sensitive information are said to prove this.

United States Attorney David Metcalf announced that Zhengchang Huang, aka “chinodrug,” Chihwei Lim, and Yang Yong, 34, a Chinese national who had been legally residing in Kent, Washington, was sentenced today to 180 months’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and a $1 million fine by United States District Judge Michael M. Baylson for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone. Judge Baylson …

Front Page of Bohemia Market The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has demanded a 3-year prison sentence and the confiscation of 31 bitcoins against a 21-year-old man from England before the Rotterdam court on Monday. The public prosecutor of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office sees the suspect as a major player behind what was once the world’s largest dark web market …

Simplytranslate is a privacy friendly frontend to multiple Translation Engines. allowing users to translate through tor without Javascript using google translate, reverso and Iciba. It was created by metalune and fattalion and written in python. They later retired and handed it over to ManeraKai a well known contributor to open source projects such as a browser extension that configures your …

A six month operation has come to a close, arresting 193 individuals and disrupting the networks behind the growth of violence-as-a-service (VaaS). The organized crime groups that have been recruiting young people to carry out violent acts across Europe have become increasingly a priority target for law enforcement in recent years. What is now seen as a growing issue across …

Blockchain intelligence firm Global Ledger looked at transaction activity from January to September 2025 across five of the biggest Russian darknet marketplaces — Mega, Kraken, BlackSprut, Omg!Omg!, and Nova.(https://app.globalledger.io/hubfs/Press%20Materials/Darknet%20Investigation.pdf) It found that funds were sent through at least 20 centralized exchanges holding over 130 international licenses, using a complex network that takes advantage of the weak points between on-chain transparency …

New Markets Moderator Valor98 announced glaring security issues in three newly established markets Omerta, Orange and Changa Market. The findings of the pentest included IP address leaks among other things.

India has backtracked on an order for all smartphones to run a government-launched cybersecurity app, after a backlash over privacy concerns. The Sanchar Saathi app on a mobile phone. (AP) They were also ordered to ensure the app could not be deleted by users, and that future software updates would roll the app out to owners of older phone models …