[ConcernedCitizen]

Hydra Market Seized by German Authorities

Presumably as soon as they began eating doors and throwing flashbangs, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt)
took down the official server and replaced the front page with this image. Now, at the time of publishing this, the main and backup domains
for Hydra are offline displaying a “502 Bad Gateway” error message.









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What is NCET:
"The Department of Justice (DOJ) has formed a new team to help conduct investigations and prosecute crimes
associated with virtual currency exchanges, money laundering and other cryptocurrency cases. “Today we are
launching the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) to draw on the Department’s cyber and money
laundering expertise to strengthen our capacity to dismantle the financial entities that enable criminal
actors to flourish — and quite frankly to profit — from abusing cryptocurrency platforms” Deputy Attorney
General Lisa Monaco said in a statement published Wednesday. “As the technology advances, so too must the
Department evolve with it so that we’re poised to root out abuse on these platforms and ensure user confidence
in these systems,” Monaco added.

Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite will supervise NCET, which will include attorneys from DOJ criminal
division’s money laundering and asset recovery section, computer crime and intellectual property section and
assistant U.S. attorneys and will help trace and recover assets as a result of fraud, including payments to
ransom-ware threat actors. The NCET leader will be chosen based on experience in criminal investigations and
cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies and will report to the assistant attorney general. The newly established
team will come up with strategic priorities for cryptocurrency-related investigations, build up and maintain
relationships with federal, local, state and international law enforcement agencies, help coordinate information
sharing and train federal prosecutors in developing prosecutorial and investigative strategies, among other functions."

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Further reading:


Government press announcement: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-d...arketplace
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/darknet-...-says.html
https://www.hackread.com/germany-russia-...seize-btc/
https://thehackernews.com/2022/04/german...hydra.html

[Raghavop1]

Was hydra just a forum like us?

[ConcernedCitizen]

Was hydra just a forum like us?

Darknet market.

[Raghavop1]

Was hydra just a forum like us?

Darknet market.

Alright thanks buddy.

[Itree1986]

Was hydra just a forum like us?

Darknet market.

Alright thanks buddy.

crazy

[Dismas]

Was hydra just a forum like us?

No, more akin to Silk Road. We don't allow drug deals/etc.

[Verbs]

What was sold on that market?

[Dismas]

What was sold on that market?

Mostly drugs. Fakes IDs and fraud-related stuff too.

[ConcernedCitizen]

FYI they began their investigating in around August (that is known of) and they left it up while they collected more information AFTER they honeypot everything as per the MO of most organizations that want to catch bigger fish. They are investigating almost 20 people now for sale of narcotics including fentanyl: a deadly and popular cutting agent that's up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. Also I believe they are investigating weapons sales on the site which will likely spill over to other sites and forums because Russians love their guns.

[2ndround]

Not browsed darknet forums for years. Is there anything decent left?