Europol has shuttered one of the longest-running dark web marketplaces, Archetyp Market, but blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs says the marketplaces are highly adaptive to shutdowns.
Europol data-ct-non-breakable=”null” href=”https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europe-wide-takedown-hits-longest-standing-dark-web-drug-market” rel=”noopener nofollow” target=”_blank” title=”null”>said on Monday that it shut down Archetyp Market’s main infrastructure in the Netherlands through a series of raids involving six countries.
Key Archetyp personal and technical infrastructure were targeted in the raids, which saw the alleged administrator, a German national, arrested in Spain, with Europol saying they also arrested a moderator and six of…
