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Map Shows Global Dark Web Crackdown as FBI Announces Arrests

Headline from Newsweek

Newest development Nov 13, 2026 · 2 reportsOperation TorNado: Feds Arrest Over 300 Dark Web Drug Traffickers Worldwide

Some 354 arrests took place around the world as part of Operation TorNado, a crackdown on dark web narcotics vendors and buyers.

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  1. Police arrest 354 suspects in dark web cybercrime crackdown

    Headline from Bleeping Computer ·

  2. Newest

    Operation TorNado: Feds Arrest Over 300 Dark Web Drug Traffickers Worldwide

    Headline from PJ Media ·

2 reports not tied to one development ·

Reports & sources

6 articles, oldest first.

  1. Just the News

    International Operation TorNado secures more than 350 arrests on the dark web, including 132 in US (opens Just the News)

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    Just the News's feed description

    The operation included actions against Dark Web vendors and buyers who were active on prominent Dark Web drug markets seized by law enforcement and included traffickers of drugs like fentanyl, cocaine and amphetamines like MDMA and ketamine.

  2. WFMZ Allentown

    Global police crackdown on dark web nets 350 arrests (opens WFMZ Allentown)

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    WFMZ Allentown's feed description

    Police have arrested 354 people and seized large quantities of drugs, guns and cash in a major global crackdown on users of the "dark web," US and European officials said Thursday.

  3. Bleeping Computer

    Police arrest 354 suspects in dark web cybercrime crackdown (opens Bleeping Computer)

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    Bleeping Computer's feed description

    Authorities arrested 354 suspects in a joint international operation targeting vendors and buyers on the Archetyp, Nemesis, Tor2Door, Bohemia, and Kingdom dark web marketplaces. [...]

  4. Watch Dog Report

    Feds CRUSH a Dark-Web Drug Empire (opens Watch Dog Report)

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    Watch Dog Report's feed description

    Operation TorNado did not just seize fentanyl — it seized the ledger of a criminal economy, pulling in 354 arrests, 5.7 metric tons of drugs, 209 firearms, and more than $234 million in cash and cryptocurrency across 14 countries, a scale that places it among the largest coordinated darknet enforcem…

  5. PJ Media

  6. Newsweek

    Map Shows Global Dark Web Crackdown as FBI Announces Arrests (opens Newsweek)

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    Newsweek's feed description

    Some 354 arrests took place around the world as part of Operation TorNado, a crackdown on dark web narcotics vendors and buyers.

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