On Friday, the European police agency Europol along with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security announced that the “Operation Onymous” had been initiated and they had arrested 17 people in countries given below and seized hundreds of Dark Web domains associated with well over a dozen black market websites. In addition to the takedowns of drug markets Silk Road 2, Cloud 9 and Hydra which was reported yesterday, the authorities also busted contraband markets like Pandora, Blue Sky, Topix, Flugsvamp, Cannabis Road, and Black Market. Other takedown targets included money laundering sites like Cash Machine, Cash Flow, Golden Nugget and Fast Cash. And agents have taken from criminal suspects more than $1 million in bitcoin, $250,000 in cash, as well as an assortment of computers, drugs, gold, silver and weapons that they had yet to fully catalogue. A total of 17 Countries including 16 European countries namely Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland along with United States FBI were involved in this Global action The Europol said these Dark Markets running hidden under the Tor Networks and were involved in the marketing and selling of illegal and harmful items including weapons, Drugs and pedophilia. The Arrest of Blake Benthall the accused owner of Silk Road 2.0 was also the part of this joint operation, the Europol said. While the global raids may bring end to few of Dark Web, but is is not possible to completely stop these websites to come up in existence, with reports of Silk Road script being available to many drug dealers and Silk Road 3.0 already coming up into existence.
