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Rydox marketplace administrator Ardit Kutleshi pleads guilty in US court

Ardit Kutleshi, 28, has pleaded guilty to running Rydox, an online marketplace that sold stolen identities, login credentials, credit card data and cybercrime tools. Court documents show Rydox facilitated over 7,600 sales of stolen personal data and offered more than 321,000 other cybercrime products to over 18,000 users between 2016 and its 2024 shutdown. Kutleshi was extradited from Kosovo to the US in 2025 after a joint law enforcement operation seized the site's domain and servers in Kuala Lumpur.

Dark Web Service Nexus Sells 153 Million U.S. and Canadian Driver's Licenses, FBI Investigates

A newly launched dark web marketplace called Nexus is offering digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the U.S. and Canada, along with millions of ID cards, travel documents, and medical cards. Investigators suspect the data was siphoned from a Louisiana-based identity verification firm, and the FBI's New Orleans field office has opened an inquiry into the source of the leaked images.