In 2013, Ross Ulbricht was hunted down by the FBI while sitting in a San Francisco library. He was arrested for making half a billion dollars running Silk Road, a “dark web” marketplace for buying and ...

It's a real-life, high-tech version of "Breaking Bad." An FBI arrest in San Francisco has a backdrop of billions in online drug sales, murder-for-hire plots and a shadowy Internet website far from the ...

It hasn’t been a week since the government seized and shut down Silk Road, the digital black marke t hidden in the underground Deep Web, and arrested the alleged owner, Ross William Ulbricht, but a ...

One of the most bizarre tech stories in years emerged this week, in the wake of the FBI's closure of the Silk Road underground internet portal. Only accessible by those who know how to configure and ...

Money laundering, drug trafficking and computer hacking. Those are just some of the charges that 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht, the accused founder of the anonymous black market site Silk Road, will be ...

In an eastern Chinese town not too far from Shanghai, cybertechnology leaders and government officials from around the world gathered this week to discuss the future of the global digital economy.