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The world's largest illegal marketplace Dark Web closed

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The world's largest illegal marketplace Dark Web closed The Dark Web Marketplace, the world's largest black market, has closed. Gizmodo quoted officials as saying that Europol Coordinated International Operations had taken the web platform offline. The German authorities have arrested an Australian national believed to be the operator of the illegal site. Also, 20 dark web-hosted servers have been seized. According to Europol, Darkmarket, which had 500,000 users before closing, had a turnover of 320,000. The Dark Web Marketplace was rife with drugs and stolen credit card fraud, as well as malware and viruses. Europol estimates that the site is currently trading at 140 million euros. Which used to happen in Bitcoin and Monero. European authorities plan to use a dark market server seized from Ukraine and Moldova to investigate buyers and sellers using the site for criminal transactions. According to a report in The Guardian, a large investigation into the web hosting company Cybe