{"id":247242,"date":"2026-11-13T07:28:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/police-arrest-354-suspects-in-dark-web-cybercrime-crackdown"},"modified":"2026-11-13T07:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T13:28:27","slug":"police-arrest-354-suspects-in-dark-web-cybercrime-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/police-arrest-354-suspects-in-dark-web-cybercrime-crackdown","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest 354 suspects in dark web cybercrime crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"Police arrest 354 suspects in dark web cybercrime crackdown\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/If9jZ2uryKU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Authorities arrested 354 suspects in a joint international operation targeting vendors and buyers on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/police-seizes-archetyp-market-drug-marketplace-arrests-admin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Archetyp<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/darknet-marketplace-nemesis-market-seized-by-german-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nemesis<\/a>, Tor2Door, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/legal\/dutch-police-arrest-admin-of-bohemia-cannabia-dark-web-market\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bohemia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/german-police-takes-down-kingdom-market-cybercrime-marketplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kingdom<\/a> dark web marketplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Codenamed \u2018Operation TorNado,\u2019 this law enforcement action ran from May 2025 to October 2026 and involved agencies from 14 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, law enforcement targeted vendors and buyers active on forums, single-vendor shops, and encrypted messaging services. National authorities conducted independent investigations with Europol\u2019s support, including cross-checks via SIENA and forensic analysis,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.europol.europa.eu\/media-press\/newsroom\/news\/354-dark-web-vendors-and-buyers-arrested-in-europol-coordinated-global-crackdown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europol said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities arrested 354 suspects in a joint international operation targeting vendors and buyers on the Archetyp, Nemesis, Tor2Door, Bohemia, and Kingdom dark web marketplaces. Codenamed \u2018Operation TorNado,\u2019 this law enforcement action ran from May 2025 to October 2026 and involved agencies from 14 countries. \u201cAdditionally, law enforcement targeted vendors and buyers active on forums, single-vendor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,34,1625,1493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-encryption","category-law-enforcement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}