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Free Ross

Trump Frees Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht After 11 Years in Prison

Donald Trump pardoned the creator of the world’s first dark-web drug market, who is now a libertarian cause célèbre in some parts of the crypto community.

Andy Greenberg

Cashing In

China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle

Andy Greenberg

Twists and Turns

69,000 Bitcoins Are Headed for the US Treasury

Andy Greenberg

Snowballing

The Ticketmaster Data Breach May Be Just the Beginning

Matt Burgess

Two Faced

He Trained Cops to Fight Crypto Crime—and Allegedly Ran a $100M Dark-Web Drug Market

Andy Greenberg

Malpractice

Change Healthcare’s New Ransomware Nightmare Goes From Bad to Worse

Eric Geller

Out of Sight

Child Abusers Are Getting Better at Using Crypto to Cover Their Tracks

Andy Greenberg

Pen Testers

The Weird, Big-Money World of Cybercrime Writing Contests

Matt Burgess

Drug Bust

Silk Road’s Second-in-Command Gets 20 Years in Prison

Andy Greenberg

Dangerous Wares

Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto

Andy Greenberg

WIRED30

The Team of Sleuths Quietly Hunting Cyberattack-for-Hire Services

Andy Greenberg

Whack-a-Mole

Cops Just Revealed a Record-Breaking Dark Web Dragnet

Andy Greenberg

Opioid Crisis

On the Trail of the Fentanyl King

Benoît Morenne

High-Wire Acts

Meet the Creator of North Korea’s Favorite Crypto Privacy Service

Andy Greenberg

Exit Strategy

Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges

Andy Greenberg

Karma

Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars

Matt Burgess

True Cybercrime

The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 6: Endgame

Andy Greenberg

True Cybercrime

The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 5: Takedown

Andy Greenberg

True Cybercrime

The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 4: Face to Face

Andy Greenberg

True Cybercrime

The Hunt for the Dark Web's Biggest Kingpin, Part 3: Alpha Male

Andy Greenberg

Windfalls

IRS Seizes Another Silk Road Hacker’s $3.36 Billion Bitcoin Stash

Andy Greenberg

True Cybercrime

The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 2: Pimp_alex_91

Andy Greenberg

True Cybercrime

The Hunt for the Dark Web’s Biggest Kingpin, Part 1: The Shadow

Andy Greenberg

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