The Federal Criminal Police Office BKA has shut down the illegal darknet marketplace “Nemesis Market”. The platform with over 150.000 users enabled mass trafficking in narcotics, fraudulently obtained data and various cybercrime services.
The Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor’s Office – Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) – and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) secured the server infrastructure of the global illegal darknet marketplace “Nemesis Market” in Germany and Lithuania on Wednesday and closed it. At the same time, digital assets amounting to 94.000 euros in the form of cryptocurrencies were confiscated.
🔎 The BKA has closed the darknet platform “Nemesis Market” and is evaluating the user data (Image: Federal Criminal Police Office).
The measures took place as part of parallel investigations and in close coordination between German, American and Lithuanian law enforcement authorities. The measures carried out in a concerted action on March 20.03.2024, 2022 were preceded by extensive investigations that have been conducted by the BKA, the ZIT as well as the FBI, DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) and IRS-CI (Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation) since October XNUMX.
Darknet platform “Nemesis Market” smashed
“Nemesis Market” is a darknet platform accessible via the Tor network. The operators of the Darknet website are particularly suspected of commercially operating criminal trading platforms on the Internet and of committing crimes against the Narcotics Act.
The “Nemesis Market”, which was founded in 2021 and has subsequently grown rapidly, recently had over 150.000 user and over 1.100 seller accounts registered worldwide, of which, according to current investigations, almost 20 percent were seller accounts from Germany. The range of goods available on the marketplace included narcotics, fraudulently obtained data and goods as well as a selection of cybercrime services such as ransomware, phishing or DDoS attacks.
The seized marketplace data forms the basis for further investigations against criminal sellers and users of the platform. The shutdown and prosecution are a further blow to underground economy actors operating on the dark web and demonstrate the effectiveness of international law enforcement in the digital space.
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