Europol, along with Italian law enforcement, have shut down a hidden service on the dark net that distributed child sexual abuse materials.

Also seized in the raid on the site administrator were 14,000 Bitcoin wallets.

The raid was named Operation Babylon and had been ongoing for two years. Along with the sale of child sexual abuse material, it was also servicing crime by hosting sellers of illegal commodities such as weapons, passport and identity documents, counterfeit and cloned credit cards, hacking services, and close to 210 sellers of drugs.

The marketplace administrator earned a percentage from all of these transactions.

Investigators discovered thousands of images online of young victims being abused, which were being exchanged by pedophiles in many hidden online locations on the Darknet. The investigation continued with the seizure of this illegal content.

Source: SCMagazine