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A global police sting has netted 179 vendors involved in selling opioids, methamphetamine and other illegal goods on the internet underground, in ...

Operation DisrupTor followed a law agency shutdown in May 2019 of the Wall Street Market, the second largest dark web exchange, which had more than 1.1 million users and 5,400 vendors.

"The hidden Internet is no longer hidden and your anonymous activity is not anonymous," Sileris said, with Europol adding:"The golden age of the dark web marketplace is over." The arrests counted by the US included two made in Canada, where one suspect allegedly procured highly dangerous fentanyl analogues from China to mail to US buyers.US officials also arrested two men, including a pharmacist, who sold prescription opioids over the dark net and had plotted to firebomb a competitor pharmacy in Nebraska.

 

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