An Israeli man has been sentenced to 97 months in prison for operating DipdotWeb.DDW) The Clearnet website, about a year after the person pleaded guilty.
Tal Parihar, 37, an Israeli national living in Brazil, has been known to be a DDW administrator since the website went live in October 2013. He was convicted in March 2021 of money laundering and agreed to confiscate the illegally deposited items.
DDW, until its seizure in May 2019, apparently Served As a “news” website that connects Internet users to the Dark Web’s underground marketplace that operates through the Darknet, enabling the purchase of Tor, illegal firearms, malware and hacking equipment, stolen financial data, heroin, fentanyl and other illicit materials.
Prihar, working with 34-year-old Israeli co-defendant Michael Fan, provided direct links to illegal marketplaces and made substantial profits by advertising these links, receiving kickbacks from market operators in the form of virtual currencies. 8,155 bitcoins (সময় 8.4 million at transaction time).
“To conceal the nature and source of these illegal kickback payments, the watch has transferred money from its DDW Bitcoin wallet to other bitcoin accounts and to its controlled bank accounts in the name of shell companies,” the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said. Says In a release last week.
Separately, DoJ announced the conviction of an associate of the Dark Overlord hacking group for its role in capturing and selling more than 1,700 stolen identities, including social security numbers, on the Dark Web Marketplace AlphaBay.
Slava Dimitriev, a 29-year-old Canadian man arrested in Greece in September 2020 and extradited to the United States in January 2021, was sentenced in August 2021 to three years in prison after pleading guilty to forgery.
“From May 2016 to July 2017, Dimitriev sold 1,764 items in the alphabet for about $ 100,000,” DoJ Says In a press statement. “Most of these items were stolen, including names, dates of birth, social security numbers and other personally identifiable information.”
Related news, Canadian law enforcement authorities Seized and closed Canadian Headquarters (aka CanadianHQ), a darknet marketplace specialized in buying and selling spam services, phishing kits, data dumping of stolen credentials, and access to compromised machines that engage buyers in a variety of malicious activities.
The development follows the takedown of VPNLab.net, led by Europol, a VPN provider that was used by malicious actors to facilitate the installation of ransomware and other cybercrime against more than 100 businesses earlier this month.
