DOJ had hailed the indictment of the man and a co-conspirator as "the single most significant law enforcement disruption of the Darknet to date."

It's the first action of its kind by FinCEN, which assessed that the Helix and Coin Ninja services failed to file suspicious activity reports and follow other…

Drugs, not malware, are the most popular items sold on dark web markets.

It's possible that AlphaBay's fall will result in a some measure of fracturing of the dark web marketplace community to different places.