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Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) 2020

Europol (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation), October 5, 2020. Europol's statement that after the DeepDotWeb takedown users set up new information hubs and that dark.fail and darknetlive.com took over DeepDotWeb's role - function and audience continuity, not operator continuity..

Source type
International agency release
Published
October 5, 2020
Research grade
P2
Used in entries
1

Bibliographic record

Publisher
Europol (European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation)
Published
October 5, 2020
Source type
International agency release
Research grade
Source grade P2
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
Address
https://www.europol.europa.eu/cms/sites/default/files/documents/internet_organised_crime_threat_assessment_iocta_2020.pdf
What it supports
Europol's statement that after the DeepDotWeb takedown users set up new information hubs and that dark.fail and darknetlive.com took over DeepDotWeb's role - function and audience continuity, not operator continuity.
Dataset id
src_europol_iocta_2020

Research notes

  • PDF fetched and text-extracted 2026-08-23 (10.7 MB, 'INTERNET ORGANISED CRIME THREAT ASSESSMENT (IOCTA) 2020', © European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation 2020).
  • published_on 2020-10-05 comes from the Europol CMS node for the report's landing page (published epoch 1601906400), not from the PDF, which carries only the year.
  • Landing page: https://www.europol.europa.eu/publications-events/main-reports/internet-organised-crime-threat-assessment-iocta-2020
  • The passage is explicit that Europol does not allege the same operators: it describes users setting up hubs and sites 'taking over the role'.

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