Despite (or perhaps because of) a high-profile bust of the original Silk Road, the online drug market is back and more successful than ever -- and this time it brought some friends. Share on Facebook ...

Hackers like to play the cynical, world-weary intellectuals, but an awful lot of them still seem to go down with knives in their backs. More to the point, they often spend brief periods defending ...

Blake Benthall, revisiting Florida Street, where he was arrested in 2014 for operating Silk Road 2.0. August 14, 2024. Photo by Kelly Waldron. On a recent afternoon, Blake Benthall walked past his old ...

The alleged operator of Silk Road 2.0, a website used to sell illegal drugs, computer-hacking tools and fraudulent identification documents, has been arrested and will face charges in a U.S. court.

Federal officials have arrested a Bellevue man they say helped to run the Silk Road 2.0 — an underground website used to buy and sell illegal drugs and other items. Officials say the Silk Road 2.0 was ...

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. authorities said Thursday they have shut down the successor website to Silk Road, an underground online drug marketplace, and charged its alleged operator with conspiracy to ...

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(Reuters) - U.S. authorities announced charges Tuesday against a Washington state man they say assisted in the management of the successor website to Silk Road, an online black market bazaar where ...

A Washington state man was charged Tuesday with helping run what investigators call one of the most sophisticated and widely used criminal marketplaces on the Internet. The Silk Road 2.0 website ...