A New York couple dubbed 'Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde' arrested on charges of laundering $4.5 billion in stolen Bitcoin led an existence 'pulled from the pages of a spy novel,' prosecutors have said.

LISBON, March 17 (Reuters) - The closure of nightclubs and bars during COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe is likely behind a significant drop in the use of party drug MDMA last year but consumption of other substances such as cocaine and cannabis kept rising, an EU study said on Thursday.

Hackers have stolen the source code for Electronic Arts (EA) games including FIFA21 and tools like the 'Frostbite' engine that powers titles such as the 'Battlefield' series.

Footage has emerged of the inside of a five-storey abandoned underground NATO bunker built with 31inch thick concrete walls in Germany allegedly converted by criminal gangs into a high tech data centre to host darknet websites. 

By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received $1.3 billion in illicit digital coins last year - some 55% of all criminal crypto flows identified by U.S.

blockchain researcher Chainalysis.

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Cybercriminals laundered $8.6 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, up 30% from 2020, according to a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis released on Wednesday.

By Tom Wilson

LONDON, dark darknet market 2022 Feb 11 (Reuters) - Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday.

Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received $1.3 billion in illicit digital coins last year - some 55% of all criminal crypto flows identified by U.S.

blockchain researcher Chainalysis.

WASHINGTON, darkmarket 2022 April 5 (Reuters) - The U.S.
Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Tuesday on a Russia-based best Darknet markets darknet market site and darkmarket 2022 a cryptocurrency exchange that it said operates primarily out of Moscow and darkmarket 2022 St. Petersburg.

THE HAGUE, Oct 26 (Reuters) - At least 150 people have been arrested by European and U.S.
authorities after a joint crackdown on traders of drugs, weapons and other illicit goods on darknet market e-commerce sites, Dutch media reported Tuesday citing police agency Europol.

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Two of the three largest dark web markets are closed for business.