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Explore a gripping 33-minute conference talk that chronicles a four-year undercover investigation into a dark web murder-for-hire site. Learn how security researcher Chris Monteiro discovered and exploited a critical vulnerability that allowed him to intercept assassination orders containing victims' personal information, addresses, behavioral patterns, photos, and cryptocurrency payments. Discover the formation of a secret team led by Carl Miller to triage these deadly requests and their initial struggles with unresponsive law enforcement agencies. Follow their decision to directly warn potential victims and witness how their grassroots effort evolved into a global collaboration with the FBI and international police forces. Examine the operational challenges, psychological toll, and isolation faced by the team during periods when authorities dismissed their warnings. Understand the investigation's expansion that led to Romanian raids targeting the cybercriminal organization behind the site. Review the remarkable outcomes: over 175 disclosed murder orders, 34 arrests, 28 convictions, and more than 180 years of combined prison sentences, while gaining insight into the race-against-time dynamics of preventing actual murders through digital forensics and international cooperation.
