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Operation Onymous was an international law enforcement operation targeting darknet markets and other hidden services operating on the Tor network. == Raids == On 5 and 6 November 2014, a number of websites, initially claimed to be over 400, were shut down including drug markets such as Silk Road 2.0, Cloud 9 and Hydra.〔Caleb Chen. ("Operation 'Onymous' Also Shut Down Dark Net Markets Cloud 9 Hydra and Maybe More". ) CryptoCoinsNews, 6 November 2014.〕〔Andy Greenberg. ("'Operation Onymous' Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Web Domains". ) Wired.〕〔Andy Greenberg. ("Not Just Silk Road 2: Feds Seize Two Other Drug Markets and Counting". ) ''Wired''.〕 Other sites targeted included money laundering sites and "contraband sites". The operation involved the police forces of 17 countries. In total there were 17 arrests.〔 A 26-year-old software developer was arrested in San Francisco and accused of running Silk Road 2.0 under the pseudonym 'Defcon'. Defcon was "one of the primary targets".〔 Within hours of the seizure a third incarnation of the site appeared, 'Silk Road 3.0'; Silk Road had previously been seized in October 2013, and then resurrected, weeks later, as 'Silk Road 2.0'. $1 million in Bitcoin was seized, along with €180,000 in cash, gold, silver and drugs.〔 Of the 414 "illicit services" that were initially claimed to have been shut down, few were online marketplaces like Silk Road. A complaint filed on 7 November 2014 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, "seeking the forfeiture of any and all assets of the following dark market websites operating on the Tor network", referred to just 27 sites, fourteen of which were claimed to be drug markets; the others allegedly sold counterfeit currency, forged identity documents or stolen credit cards. US and European agencies sought to publicise the claimed success of their six-month-long operation, which "went flawlessly".〔〔 The UK National Crime Agency sent out a tweet mocking Tor users.〔 The official Europol press release quoted a US Homeland Security Investigations official, who stated: "Our efforts have disrupted a website that allows illicit black-market activities to evolve and expand, and provides a safe haven for illegal vices, such as weapons distribution, drug trafficking and murder-for-hire." Other leading drug markets in the Deep Web were unaffected, such as Agora, Evolution and Andromeda. Whereas Silk Road did not in fact distribute weapons, or offer contract killings, Evolution did allow trade of weapons as well as drugs. Prior to the closure of Silk Road 2.0, Agora already carried more listings than Silk Road, and Evolution was also expected to overtake it.〔 Agora and Evolution are more professional operations than Silk Road, with more advanced security; the arrest of the alleged Silk Road manager is thought to have been largely due to a series of careless mistakes.〔〔 The figure of 414 dark net sites, which was widely reported internationally, and appeared in many news headlines, was later adjusted without explanation to "upward of 50" sites.〔〔 The true figure is thought to be nearer to 27 sites, to which all 414 .onion addresses direct.〔 Australian journalist Nik Cubrilovic claimed to have discovered 276 seized sites, based on a crawl of all onion sites, of which 153 were scam, clone or phishing sites. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Operation Onymous」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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