Two months ago, Blake Benthall, the alleged operator of the Silk Road 2.0, was arrested in San Francisco. Now, the feds have also arrested his alleged right-hand man---26-year-old Brian Richard ...

Bitcoins valued at approximately $2.7 million have gone missing from Silk Road 2, allegedly due to a hack. Silk Road 2 is the reincarnation of the original Silk Road, an online black market for ...

Silk Road 2.o, the illegal drug marketplace that cropped up to replace the original has been shutdown by the FBI and its alleged operator has been charged in Manhattan Federal Court. You’ll ...

When Agent D'Agostino accessed Silk Road 2.0 last week, he found 14,024 listings under "Drugs," including 1,654 listings for psychedelics, 1,921 listings for ecstasy, 1,816 listings for cannabis ...

If the Silk Road 2.0 has in fact been a honeypot all along (and many still suspect that to be the case), that would be a major and above all long lasting blow to the Deep Web.

Editor’s Note: The story has been corrected with the accurate spelling of Mr. D’Agostino’s name. Blake Benthall, founder of Fathom(x) and former creator of the Silk Road 2.0, and Vincent D ...

Nearly $2 billion worth of forfeited bitcoin (BTC) linked to the Silk Road website were moved to crypto exchange Coinbase Prime on Monday. A wallet tagged as "U.S. Government: Silk Road DOJ ...

The resurrection of the popular Silk Road drug website known as "Silk Road 2.0" has been online for less than two months. But law enforcement already seems to be closing its net. On Friday morning ...

The second incarnation of the Silk Road has run into some trouble, with the administrator known as Defcon claiming today the site has fallen victim to a hack, and that all the associated accounts ...

Silk Road 2.0 rises from the ashes - with improvements. Nov. 6, 2013, 4:24 PM EST. By Devin Coldewey. Just five weeks after the shutdown of the Silk Road and the arrest of the man who allegedly ...

Despite (or perhaps because of) a high-profile bust of the original Silk Road, the online drug market is back and more successful than ever -- and this time it brought some friends.