Dark Web - Assassins, Drugs, Weapons and Child Pornography

Nearly 900 members of a global 'dark web' pedophile ring sprawling Europe and the Americas have been arrested following a two-year investigation, the FBI and Europol reported after the website's founder was handed a 30-year jail sentence.

Shedding light on the scope of the operation which is still active, the FBI revealed that in the US alone, 350 arrests were made as part of a wide-ranging investigation into Playpen - a secret website that is being referred to as possibly the biggest child pornography online dump that ever existed.

This was in May of this year.

In July, German police have uncovered an underground website for child pornography with nearly 90,000 users and arrested the suspected operator of the platform.

The "Elysium" platform, built as a forum, has existed since the end of 2016 and was only accessible via the so-called Darknet, Frankfurt...