The United States has imposed an assessment against the darknet resource Hydra. Before that, servers in Germany were confiscated from him
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The United States introduced Hydra, Russia’s peripheral sites for the sale of drugs, against the most famous darknet resources in the world. On this site, other illegal services, such as cyber extortion, could also be purchased for cryptocurrency.
All property of individuals and entities identified as related to Hydra that is in the aggregate or owned or controlled by US individuals or entities will be frozen.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury has listed Hydra Market (Hydra) as one of the largest and most famous securities markets in the world as part of a coordinated international event to prevent the proliferation of exotic cybercrime services.
“Russia is a paradise for cybercriminals,” the about control.
The operation against Hydra was a joint initiative of the US Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Drug Enforcement, the US Criminal Investigation Administration and the National Security Investigation Service. The action was carried out in conjunction with the German Federal Criminal Police, which shut down Hydra’s servers in Germany on Tuesday and confiscated reviews worth $25 million.
“The global threat of cybercrime and ransomware emanating from Russia, and the ability of criminal leaders to operate with impunity there, is of deep concern to the American airline,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
“Our actions today send a signal to criminals that they have no right to hide on the dark web, in Russia or anywhere else in the world. she.
Earlier, the German police announced the seizure of servers that are in the work of the Hydra darknet resource. German authorities report that the seizure of servers is carried out to the actual storage area.
From messages On the website of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) it follows that on Tuesday the police, the prosecutor’s office of Frankfurt am Main and the central office for combating cybercrime (ZIT) conducted an experiment, as a result of which the Hydra servers and surveillance in the equivalent of 23 million euros. This cryptocurrency was used as the main means of payment on the platform.
Drugs on the Hydra were sold using the so-called bookmarks: after paying for the purchase, the client’s geographic coordinates, most importantly, the hiding place with the desired.
About 17 million client accounts and more than 19 thousand sellers were registered on the site. The site and its mirrors were always found, the BBC Russian Service made sure.
US and German agencies call Hydra an illegal darknet market in the world, although its audience is concentrated in Russia. In 2020 alone, its sales amounted to at least 1.23 billion euros, the BKA said. The Russian-language marketplace, where you could buy drugs and some types of fake documents, has been operating since 2015.
The German Central Cybercrime Office has launched a preliminary investigation into the operation and the platform’s administrators. They are suspected of buying or eliminating opportunities for the illegal drug trade, as well as money laundering.
In the environment of vulnerable users of the site, as well as among experiences it was widely believed that Hydra had been kept afloat for a long time thanks to the patronage of high-ranking Russian security officials.
Despite the fact that the main profile of “Hydra” is drug trafficking, at least one case was discovered when a person was actually ordered through this site – investigator Evgenia Shishkina near Moscow. The BBC Russian Service wrote about this story in detail.
Illegal distribution, acquisition, storage, transportation, manufacture, processing of drugs, as well as their use in Russia are punishable by law. The Russian service of the BBC does not support or promote any of the acts of nature.
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