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Dark web’s longest-standing drug market seized in multinational effort
The longest-standing dark web drug market was taken down by European authorities last week, with the aid of the United States
From June 11 to 13, the agency said, a series of coordinated law enforcement actions targeting the platform’s administrator, moderators, key vendors and technical infrastructure took place across Germany, the Netherlands, Romania, Spain and Sweden. “With this takedown, law enforcement has taken out one of the dark web’s longest-running drug markets, cutting off a major supply line for some of the world’s most dangerous substances,” Europol’s Deputy Executive Director of Operations Jean-Philippe Lecouffe said in a statement. HugBunter, the anonymous user who founded the forum in 2018, asked “market admins, vendors, and other service operators” to provide “proof-of-life” by signing posts with what’s known as a PGP encrypted signature, a form of cryptographic proof.
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