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- The FBI's most recent budget request proposed $21.6 million for technology investments relating to the "going dark" issue that includes illicit use of the dark web, including drug traffickers who use virtual currencies.
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The Dutch recently stood up a dark web-focused team, while multinational organizations like Europol and Interpol are spending resources on the problem. Europol recently announced a team to combat darknet criminal activity.
OWL Cybersecurity is a dark web intelligence firm currently closing a funding round. In the one week since LEO announced the AlphaBay bust, OWL vice president Andrew Lewman says he has received a mountain of phone calls from potential investors.
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Article I got other news from This article seems to be a marketing tactic to promote owlsecurity firm, so fuck reading it yourself and giving them pageviews and ad-views, hence I added the important bits above in the post.
P.S. To address the clickbaityness of the title, the proposed budget will include other things like identifying online pedophiles, finding communications methods between terrorist orgs like ISIS, etc.