Score for the good guys as the FBI and other foreign authorities troll the dark net and take down one of the largest illegal drug websites – PB/TK
The FBI just took down AlphaBay, an online black market for drugs that was 10 times bigger than Silk Road – By Kif Leswing / July 20 2017
The biggest black market on the so-called “dark net,” AlphaBay, has been taken down by authorities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Thursday.
AlphaBay connected drug vendors with people seeking drugs like fentanyl and heroin, authorities said.
The “dark net” is a constellation of sites and services that can be accessed through a special browser, usually Tor, which routes online traffic so it’s much more difficult to identify where it originally came from.
The first and previously most famous black market on the dark web was Silk Road, which was taken down in 2013 and whose operator, Ross Ulbricht, is currently serving a life sentence.
AlphaBay was 10 times larger than Silk Road, authorities said at a press conference on Thursday.
