Silk Road 2.0 operated until November 2015 when the alleged owner, Blake "Defcon" Benthall, was detained by police and Silk Road Reloaded, while in operation, requires specialized I2P connectivity ...

The site, which was shut down in 2013 alongside Ulbricht's arrest, was a notorious marketplace for illegal drugs, among other products.

The Silk Road's Dark-Web Dream Is Dead. The Silk Road's libertarian free-trade zone has devolved into a fragmented, less ethical, and far less trusted collection of scam-ridden black markets.

After NCB's Ketamelon bust exposed LSD trafficking via dark web, Kerala Police sharpens cyber patrol to counter illicit trade ...

The dark web has only grown in the years since the FBI seized the Silk Road’s servers and arrested its creator in late 2013. At that time, the site had roughly 12,000 listings, for items ranging ...

Silk Road, the underground website where dealers sold illegal drugs, was supposed to be safe. The site was nestled deep in the dark web, accessible only through the anonymizing network Tor.

Five years after Ross Ulbricht, founder of dark web marketplace Silk Road, received to a double life sentence in prison, federal prosecutors filed a civil complaint Thursday seeking the forfeiture ...

Silk Road was once a popular marketplace in the Dark Web. Operating from 2011 to 2013, Silk Road -- only accessible through the Tor onion network -- connected buyers to traders offering drugs ...

Nick Robinson on talks about playing a dark-web drug kingpin in "Silk Road" and his future involvement on Hulu's "Love, Victor." Continue to Variety SKIP AD You will be redirected back to your ...

David Ryan Burchard, 38, allegedly used "caliconnect" as his alias on the now-defunct Silk Road and apparently used similar usernames on Silk Road's successor site and then on other dark web ...

In January 2025, a claim circulated that U.S. President Donald Trump had pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was imprisoned for operating the dark web marketplace Silk Road.. The rumor was true. On Jan ...