International agency release

# 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](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'.

How this source is used

Cited 1 time across 1 record type.

The role on each citation records what the source was relied on for. A primary source establishes the fact, a supporting source corroborates it, technical evidence describes the infrastructure, and a later outcome records what happened afterwards.

Sources were reviewed to a research cutoff of August 23, 2026. Addresses recorded after that date are not reflected here.

## Cited by

### Later activity

1 citation

Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.

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[dark.fail and darknetlive.com](https://takedownindex.org/takedowns/deepdotweb-domain-seizure)

Ecosystem successor, DeepDotWeb domain seizure

Later outcome

[All sources](https://takedownindex.org/sources)