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Authorities in Switzerland have arrested four suspected members of the dark web child abuse forum, “Elysium.” Europol has been coordinating the investigation between German authorities and Fedpol. In 2017, the German Federal Criminal Police Office raided the home owned by the operator of Germany’s largest child pornography forum on the dark web. They arrested the forum owner and seized the encrypted computers that had been hosting the server. Since the arrest, the German Federal Criminal Police Office and other branches of law enforcement in Germany and Austria arrested members of Elysium. They used logs from the seized server and other pieces of revealing information to track down physical child abusers first. Even though the forum was for German speakers, law enforcement aro...

Not long after French law enforcement arrested the alleged owner of a dark web child exploitation forum that had been flying under the radar for years, investigators in France foiled a pedophile’s plan to have his own daughter kidnapped and raped by a member of another dark web forum for pedophiles. According to the French media outlet that broke the story about the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation that led to the arrest of the alleged dark web child pornography forum owner, cybercrime investigators working for the Judicial Police of Lyon spotted something that warranted a rapid response. These cybercrime investigators had been investigating pedophiles through various internet platforms. One of these platforms was a forum on the dark web dedicated to the disc...

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Four Men Arrested for Using Dark Web “Child Porn” Forum

Incarcerated Pedophile Used a Dark Web Forum to Arrange a Rape in France