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German prosecutors announced on Monday (May 3) they have busted one of the world's biggest international darknet platforms for child pornography, used by more than 400,000 registered members.

The most visited torrent site in Bulgaria, Zamunda.net, is unavailable. The first signs of emerging problems with the operation of the tracker were observed from the evening of February 21.

The site's collapse comes about a day after the office of the Prosecutor General office asked for help the US Department of Justice for blocking Zamunda.

An Athens Court of Appeals has found former general secretary for procurements Yiannis Sbokos guilty of taking bribes in connection with the purchase of the TOR-M1 short-range missile defense system.

The court also upheld charges against Petros Christodoulides, a broker, and businessman Giorgos Kamaris.

Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Rogozin has said that Serbia is more interested in buying air defense systems Tor and Buk than S-300s.

According to Beta, he added that this will depend on the Serbian budget.

Anonymous hacktivists took down Isdrat, the ISIS site, less than a week after it first appeared on the Tor browser of the dark web by inundating it with advertisements for anti-depressant Prozac and Viagra drugs for erectile dysfunction. In this way, the group sent a message urging extremists to calm down. Anonymous statement was:

Social media sites have become "the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists", the new head of Britain's electronic spying agency GCHQ wrote in a Financial Times article published Nov. 4.
      

Increasing amount of illegal online material reported

BELGRADE -- The Net Patrol mechanism for reporting illegal and harmful online content has received more than 900 reports in 11 months.

140 of these have been forwarded to the INHOPE network.

Greece’s broadcasting watchdog said on Tuesday it would investigate claims that some media and journalists had attempted to emotionally blackmail their audiences ahead of Sunday’s European and local elections.