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Tor Network Used to Hide 900 Botnets and Darknet Markets, Says Kaspersky Lab – CIO

Tor Network Used to Hide 900 Botnets and Darknet Markets, Says Kaspersky Lab
CIO
Examples of Tor abuse are legion and include a recent Android botnet, the first ever discovered to be using Tor from that platform. Conventional botnets have also experimented with Tor. Probably the most infamous Tor parasite yet was the Silk Road

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Silk Road-alike “Utopia” dark-net market seized by Dutch police

It was meant to rival Silk Road, which the US FBI shut down in October and which sold the same type of merchandise: drugs, firearms, stolen bank account information and forged identity documents.
Naked Security – Sophos