The Biggest Dark Web Takedown Yet Sends Black Markets Reeling
The Biggest Dark Web Takedown Yet Sends Black Markets Reeling
Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer
July 21, 20176m 54s
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Show Notes
Not since the days of the now-legendary Silk Road has a single site dominated the dark web's black market as completely, and for as long, as the online bazaar known as AlphaBay. And with the news that the site has been torn down by a law enforcement raid---and one of its leaders found dead in a Thai prison---the dark web drug trade has fallen into a temporary state of chaos. About a week ago AlphaBay, the dark web's largest contraband marketplace, went mysteriously offline.
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