Dark Web
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| Originally published | February 14, 2018 |
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| Authors | Dean Koontz |
| Genres | Thriller |
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| ID | 2971824 |
About Dark Web
Booking. com hackers increase attacks on customers
... com customers by posting adverts on Dark Web forums asking for help finding victims...
British Library hack: Customer data offered for sale on dark web
...The British Library says it has evidence that user data was hacked in a cyber attack and offered for sale on the Dark Web...
Brianna Ghey: Murder-accused teens 'had preoccupation with torture'
... Real ones on the Dark Web, " the jury heard...
Synthetic opioids: Largest ever UK seizure made by police
... Detectives believe the drug was being sold on the Dark Web...
British Library: Employee data leaked in cyber attack
... " On Monday the Rhysida ransomware group said it was behind the attack and shared an image to its leak site on the Dark Web showing various documents, some of which appear to be HMRC employment contracts and passports...
Canadian killed family to make Muslims fearful, jury hears
... Crown lawyer Fraser Ball told the jury the accused became " highly radicalised" in the lead-up to the attack, and had been viewing " highly racist" content on the Dark Web...
Paedophiles using AI to turn singers and film stars into kids
... On one Dark Web forum the charity says images of child actors are also being manipulated to make them sexual...
Twitter glitch allows CIA informant channel to be hijacked
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Synthetic opioids: Largest ever UK seizure made by police
The largest ever UK seizure of synthetic opioids has been made by police and border officials.
A series of raids in Waltham Forest and Enfield, North London , culminated in 11 people being charged with conspiracy to supply Class A and B drugs.
About 150,000 tablets of a drug called Nitazene were found in a factory Set Up to make the pills, Metropolitan Police said.
Detectives believe the drug was being sold on the Dark Web .
They also found various other Class A and B drugs, a gun, a pill pressing machine, More Than £60,000 in cash and £8,000 in cryptocurrency stored on hard drives.
Arrests were made between August and November and all those arrested have since been charged.
What are Nitazenes?Nitazenes were first developed in the 1950s as a pain-killing medication but are so potent and addictive they have never been approved for medical or therapeutic use.
In recent years, they have been linked to thousands of deaths in the United States .
In 2019, it was reported that, unknown to users, they were being cut and spliced into heroin, cocaine, and street pills.
Injected, inhaled or swallowed, mixing them with other drugs and alcohol is Extremely Dangerous and significantly increases The Risk of overdose and death.
British law enforcement is aiming to stop any rise in the use of synthetic opioids amid a decrease in heroin being smuggled from Afghanistan, a Met force spokesperson said.
They want to avoid a situation similar to that in the US, where The Number of fatal fentanyl overdoses went up by Three Times in The Five years to 2021.
Det Supt Helen Rance said: " Synthetic opioids have been detected in batches of heroin found in London and across the UK; they substantially raise The Risk of incredibly serious harm to the user and are believed to be linked to A Number of deaths.
" We Are working closely with partners to monitor and proactively tackle this issue, provide advice and remove the availability of these dangerous drugs from our streets. "
Synthetic opioidsSigns that someone may have taken one of these drugs:
Anyone who has consumed synthetic opioids and experiences the symptoms described should seek urgent medical treatment, The Met said.
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