One more effect of the pandemic: a boom in illegal drug sales on the darknet, says Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco in announcing 150 arrests in coordination with law-enforcement agencies in eight other countries
The Justice Department and European police authorities said they arrested 150 people who sold and bought drugs and weapons on darknet forums, using evidence drawn from the world’s largest illegal online marketplace after it was taken down in January.
The darknet is a network of websites that uses anonymity software to hide users’ locations. Users on darknet forums use cryptocurrency to pay for illegal goods such as drugs, or services such as malware for cyberattacks, making it difficult for investigators to track them down. “With such operations based on information sharing, trust between partners and international coordination, we are sending a strong message to these criminals on the dark web,” said Jean-Philippe Lecouffe, the deputy executive director of Europol, the European Union’s law-enforcement agency. “No one is beyond the reach of law, even on the dark web.”
Joint investigations among authorities in different countries can take a long time as police need legal agreements to share evidence across borders and cybercrime investigators often piece together data from a variety of sources to identify people who use software to hide their locations, said Steven J. Murdoch, a professor of security engineering at University College London.
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