Europol takes down Italian Darknet service used to share child porn

Danny Palmer
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Hidden network also used to sell cybercrime, fraud and hacking services

Europol has helped to close a Darknet hidden web service used by cybercriminals to share material depicting the sexual abuse of children, in addition to selling services used for fraud, computer ha...

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