BlackSprut

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2023: Advertising on Moscow banners

In early February 2023, an advertisement for an illegal Darknet Marketplace called BlackSprut was seen in several places in Moscow. A large animated banner depicted a masked girl with the caption "In search of the best come to me."

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Illegal Darknet Marketplace BlackSprut advertised on Moscow street banners

According to the portal, SecurityLab BlackSprut is an underground marketplace on the darknet on which they are sold. prohibited substances The marketplace is aimed mainly at users from countries. CIS According to the publication, the BlackSprut Marketplace Transactions, like some other darknet marketplaces, are serviced, cryptoexchange Bitzlato which the Treasury Department USA previously accused of. money laundering

BlackSprut is not the first drug darknet venue publicly advertised in Moscow. According to "Лента.ру," the most high-profile story occurred on the evening of December 19, 2022, when a bus advertising the Kraken marketplace (the name of the marketplace and the QR code leading to its page were applied to it) blocked two lanes on Novy Arbat near the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As journalists managed to find out, the organizers of the action paid 100 thousand rubles for the old MAZ, and the hired driver, who did not know the true meaning of what was happening, not only bought it himself with the money sent, but also registered it for himself. After that, he was supposed to cut through the vastness of the Moscow region for 15 thousand rubles a day, but, sensing something was wrong, he refused. As a result, the action became even larger, especially since, according to a number of Telegram channels dedicated to darknet topics, the security forces began to remove the bus only an hour later. During this time, the young people who arrived on it managed to take pictures as a keepsake and burn several fires.^[1]

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