The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) officials announced the arrests of nearly 300 suspects as part of the international crackdown on fentanyl and opioid trafficking on the dark web that the authorities described as the most extensive investigation of its kind. The operation, dubbed Operation SpecTor, spanned more than a year and was conducted in nine countries across…

Hackers have released 16,000 Tasmanian education department documents on the dark web including school children’s personal information, the state government has confirmed. Science and Technology Minister Madeleine Ogilvie said thousands of financial statements and invoices containing names and addresses of school students and their parents had been released after third-party file transfer service GoAnywhere MFT…

The Biden administration has dismissed reports of American Javelin missiles sent to Ukraine being sold online to third parties, calling it Russian propaganda. Reports of the sale first circulated on social media. One Twitter account posted a screenshot of a website on the dark web listing Javelin FGM-148 missiles for sale at $30,000 per piece….

Critics of Britain’s new Online Safety Bill say they fear it will erode freedom of speech and could push more people into seeking alternatives on the dark web. The Bill—which was last week given an unopposed second reading by British MPs—would force Google, Twitter, Meta (formerly Facebook), and others, to abide by a code of conduct, overseen…

Notifiable data breaches are on the rise in Australia but most people don’t know where their stolen personal details end up or how much they’re worth, a cyber expert says. To crooks, it’s the new gold: data in the form of Medicare numbers, bank account details, and social media passwords they can onsell. Marketplaces have…

A data breach of the software company Salesforce has compromised the data of hundreds of thousands of licensed professionals in the state of Washington, some of which may already be circulating on the dark web. The department of licensing became aware of the breach on Jan. 24, after detecting “chatter” about a state Licensing Department…

SANTA ANA—Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes announced June 3 he has been chosen to head a committee on a national association of sheriffs. Barnes will chair the intelligence commanders committee for the Major County Sheriffs of America organization. Barnes said he hoped to especially focus on cyber security with the rash of ransomware attacks on…

The Australian National University (ANU) has found that police raids on the dark web marketplaces have dented the supply of opioids, like fentanyl being sold illegally online. The report (pdf), commissioned by the Australian Institute of Criminology’s (AIC) Serious and Organised Crime Research Laboratory, examined how law enforcement seizures and the subsequent black market closures…

The Australian National University (ANU) has found that police raids on the dark web marketplaces have dented the supply of opioids, like fentanyl being sold illegally online. The report (pdf), commissioned by the Australian Institute of Criminology’s (AIC) Serious and Organised Crime Research Laboratory, examined how law enforcement seizures and the subsequent black market closures…

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has carried out a series of raids between Brisbane and the Gold Coast in connection to the shutdown of Darkmarket, the world’s largest illegal e-commerce site on the dark web. The AFP was alerted after German authorities arrested a 34-year-old Australian man, accused of running the site. Authorities allege the site…