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 was being used for selling contraband, counterfeit money, stolen credit card data, anonymous SIM cards and malware. German police officers also terminated DarkMarket’s servers and criminal infrastructure before arresting the alleged administrator near the border of Germany and Denmark on Jan. 11. On Jan. 20 and Jan. 21, AFP officers in Operation Futurist carried out search warrants across Queensland properties in Park Ridge, Mount Cotton and at a commercial facility in Molendinar. Officers seized six USB thumb drives, five hard drives, four mobile phones, a laptop, as well as SIM cards and bank cards. However, …