dark web

09 Oct

69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury—While the Agent Who Seized Them Is in Jail

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In November of 2020, a person identified by the US Department of Justice only as “Individual X” sat down with an IRS agent named Tigran Gambaryan and prosecutors at the US Attorney’s office in San Francisco. That unnamed individual typed out the long string of characters of a Bitcoin private key on Gambaryan’s laptop, allowing Gambaryan to move 69,370 bitcoins from Individual X’s bitcoin address to one controlled by the US government.Over the four years that it has taken the US government to establish legal ownership of that massive sum of bitcoins—identified by the IRS as stolen proceeds of the…

10 Jul

Google will give users free dark web monitoring

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Google announced in an update on Tuesday that its dark web monitoring service, also known as “dark web report,” will be made available to all Google users in 46 countries including the US and UK at the end of the month, according to Fast Company. The feature was previously only available to users with a Google One membership.The dark web report will be located in the “Results about you” page when you visit myactivity.google.com.Google’s “dark web report” feature will scan the seedy underbelly of algorithms that ended up on the wrong side of the digital tracks to determine if your…