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Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail
Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail Federal authorities have smashed the world’s largest dark web child porn marketplace, arresting a whopping 337 people around the world – some of them in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut -- all thanks to bitcoin. To sniff out the network, investigators used a unique strategy. "Welcome to Video" was one of the first websites of its kind to monetize exploitation videos of infants, toddlers and other children, "one of the worst forms of evil imaginable," one federal prosecutor said. The network used bitcoin because of the difficulty in tracing it, the Justice Department said in a complaint…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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US Attorney For NJ: Ukrainian Who Pushed 100M Malware Ads Worldwide Extradited From Netherlands US Attorney For NJ: Ukrainian Who Pushed 100M Malware Ads Worldwide Extradited From Netherlands
US Attorney For NJ: Ukrainian Who Pushed 100M Malware Ads Worldwide Extradited From Netherlands A Ukrainian national accused of infecting computers worldwide with more than 100 million pieces of malware was extradited from the Netherlands after being tracked down by the U.S. Secret Service and Dutch authorities, the government said Friday. Oleksii Petrovich Ivanov, 31, infected the computers –100 of them in New Jersey – using what’s known as “malvertising,” U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Craig Carpenito said. The scheme was particularly dangerous, Carpenito said, because “it uses online ads to target millions of unsuspecting Internet users engaged in activities as routine as booking the…

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by Jerry DeMarco