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Crypto Exchange E-Note seized for laundering $70 million in ransomeware funds

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan announced today a coordinated action with international partners and the Michigan State Police to disrupt and take down the online infrastructure used to operate E-Note, a cryptocurrency exchange that allegedly facilitated money laundering by transnational cyber-criminal organizations, including those targeting U.S. healthcare and critical infrastructure.

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Archive news: Top Korea Market seized

Screenshot of Top Korea Market The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office effectively dismantled “Top Korea,” the largest Korean Market on the dark web. The investigation identified 19 drug dealers involved with the site, indicting 15 of them under detention and four without detention. These individuals were involved in drug transactions worth approximately 900m won ($657,000). Top Korea, opened in June …

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Trainee Real estate agent sentenced for his role in supplying meth

A magistrate told a court anything but a prison sentence for an aspiring real estate agent would be “manifestly inadequate’’ after he was “entrenched” in a culture that led him to participate in a dark web syndicate and deliver meth. Harpreet Flora, 26, faced Penrith Local Court on Wednesday when he was due to be sentenced more than a year …

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Binance confirms cooperating with LE in Ketamelon Bust

Indian authorities brought down Edison Babu, a former engineer whose alias, “Ketamelon,” had grown into India’s biggest darknet vendor. In July 2025, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) launched Operation Melon, unmasking Babu as the country’s only “Level-4 darknet vendor”, a ranking used on the markets denoting a bigger seller. The case has since been described by investigators as “a watershed …

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