Operation Onymous… 414 Onion sites Taken Offline/Seized

Tor (The Onion Router) is an anonymizing program that allows access to the Dark Web, it works by basically routing packets through an anonymous proxy network. (See Searching the Deep Web)

Europol, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security, arrested 17 people in as many countries and seized hundreds of Dark Web domains that catered to to the illegal and dark. Agents have taken from criminal suspects more than $1 million in bitcoin, $250,000 in cash, and an assortment of computers, drugs, gold, silver and weapons that they had yet to fully catalog.

In all, the agencies say it has seized 414 “.onion” domains, the web addresses used by the anonymity software Tor that hides the physical location of those sites’ servers.

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