US authorities have taken 145 domains and an unspecified amount of cryptocurrency tied to Bidencash, a dark web market accused of trafficking millions of stolen credit cards and personal data.
The action, announced On June 5 of the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, it followed an operation that the court allowed the platform to target the platform infrastructure and financial flow. The seized domain is now redirected to a server controlled by law enforcement.
Bidencash, launched in March 2022, grew to more than 117,000 users and facilitated the sale of more than 15 million stolen payment card numbers and other personal known information. The platform formed more than $ 17 million in revenue during its operation, according to US officials.
The dark web marketplace also sells compromising the logging credentials for unauthorized access to the computer. Between October 2022 and February 2023, it released 3.3 million stolen credit card notes for free, a tactic used to promote its services to cybercriminals and attract new users.
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The US has won the court approved to seize the crypto
The US also secured the court’s permission to occupy cryptocurrency funds linked to illegal bidencash activities, even though officials did not disclose the amount of crypto recovered.
The case was led by the Frankfurt resident office of the US Secret Service, the agency’s Cyber Investigative section, and the FBI’s Albuquerque field office. The investigation is part of a broader US effort to target crypto-enabled criminal networks operating on the dark web.
Bidencash seizure increases with a growing list of execution actions. In May, the Operation Raptor Break Multiple dark drug platforms on the web, resulting in 270 arrests in 10 countries and the seizure of $ 200 million in properties, including large amounts of cryptocurrency.
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US penalties are crypto addresses linked to Nemesis Darknet
In March, the US authorities NOW-Defunct Online Darknet Marketplace Operator permittedused to facilitate the sale of drugs, false identity documents, Resources of professional hacking and various other forbidden services for cybercriminals.
The penalty involved 44 Bitcoin (Btc) Addresses and five monuer (Xmr) addresses, which, between July 2022 and March 2024, received more than $ 850,000.
In 2024 the Darknet Marketplaces formed more than $ 1.7 billion income, a slight increase from the previous year, year, According to In Blockchain Intelligence Firm TRM Labs’ 2025 Credit Crime Report.
The report noted that Russia’s Darknet language markets continue to dominate the ecosystem, largely because of Russian authorities “low risk of implementation action.”
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