The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other ...

Federal shut-down of Silk Road was only speed bump, report says. This frame grab from the Silk Road website shows thumbnails for products allegedly available through the site. On Oct. 1, 2013, FBI ...

Silk Road website raided by FBI, Ross William Ulbricht arrested. Oct. 2, 2013— -- A billion dollar black market website allowed people to use Bitcoin digital currency to buy guns, drugs or ...

Speaking at a crypto conference, Drug Kingping Ross Ulbricht was astonished at VR and AI, and called for unity in the crypto ...

Dark-web drug transactions increased 50 percent between 2013--the year the FBI shut down the Silk Road--and January 2016, according to a new report from the United Nations. The Silk Road may be ...

He's accused of making millions of dollars operating the secret Silk Road website and of a failed murder ... say was marketing Silk Road on other drug-related websites the FBI was watching.

NEW YORK – Alleged Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht was convicted of drug conspiracy and other ... "the supposed anonymity of the dark web is not a protective shield from arrest ...

Two years ago this week, Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison without parole for running the Silk Road, an unprecedented dark web bazaar for drugs and other contraband. The judge intended ...

A year after the Silk Road 2 came online promising to revive the Dark Web drug trade following its predecessor's seizure by the FBI, the sequel has suffered the same fate. On Thursday ...

Over a year after the shuttering of the original Silk Road website and over a month after ... Road “as the largest illegal black market for drugs before the takedown." Others include Agora ...

It’s high time for the Feds to stop traffic on Silk Road, a Website where a vast array of illegal drugs is sold, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday. Schumer called on the U.S. Drug Enforcement ...

Anthony Cuthbertson is a staff writer at Newsweek, based in London. Anthony's awards include Digital Writer of the Year (Online Media Awards) and Journalist of the Year (Association of Online ...