Behind this new success against the cybercrime there is a dedicated Dark Web Team established by the Europol that works together with EU partners and law enforcement across the globe. “The German Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt) shut down the Wall Street Market, under the authority of the German Public Prosecutor’s office. The operation also allowed to arrest of two major suppliers of illegal narcotics in the United States.
“To make this possible, we need to work on our servers instantly from time to time. The maintenance is usually done pretty fast.” European and American investigators have broken up one of the world’s largest online criminal trafficking operations in a series of raids in the United States and Germany, authorities said Friday. Two covert websites used to sell drugs, stolen data and malware have been shut down following arrests and raids conducted as part of a global police operation. When officials seized servers located in the Netherlands, they found instances where the creators themselves used “WSM” or “Wall Street Market” multiple times in the code.
Law Enforcement Raids
It isn’t exactly clear how RAMP has managed to avoid the same fate as Silk Road and its successors. It also sells Fullz and data, sim cards, accounts and bank drops, guides and parcel lockers. The Wall Street Market seizure is not the first or even most devastating law enforcement takeover of a dark web storefront. In 2017, Dutch police took control of Hansa, a booming darknet market, and the FBI shut down AlphaBay, an even larger competitor.
