A 35-year-old man operating from China ran the largest fraudulent dark web network ever dismantled, creating over 373,000 onion domains to advertise child sexual abuse material and cybercrime-as-a-service offerings. German authorities led Operation Alice with Europol’s support, seizing servers and devices after uncovering that buyers paid in Bitcoin for nonexistent content, netting the suspect about €345,000 from roughly 10,000 victims. #AliceWithViolenceCP #OperationAlice
Keypoints
- The operator ran more than 373,000 onion domains on the dark web.
- The platform “Alice with Violence CP” advertised non-existent child sexual abuse material sold for €17–€215 per package.
- Operation Alice was led by German authorities with Europol support and 23 countries participating to trace payments and arrests.
- Investigators estimate about €345,000 was obtained from roughly 10,000 buyers who received no content.
- The network also offered cybercrime-as-a-service, including stolen card data and access to compromised backend systems.
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