The dark web is home to many devious things. People spend so long searching for something darker than the dark web, when truthfully you can find some pretty messed up stuff without adding in private networks and “closed shell systems”.
While red rooms are not capable of being run on Tor, that doesn’t mean things just as disturbing and gruesome don’t exist.
Recently, a 20-year-old British model experienced the trauma that the dark web can bring. The model, Chloe Ayling, arrived in Milan on July 10th for a model shoot organized by her agent.
Unfortunately, after navigating to the Milan apartment, Ayling was attacked by two men who then stuffed her body into a bag and threw her into the trunk of a car.
After being driven to a remote cottage in Borgial, Italy, a village close to the French border, Ayling was forced inside the cottage.
Handcuffed to a wooden chest in the bedroom of the cottage, Ayling spent the next seven days fearing for her life. During the traumatic week, the abductors used encrypted accounts to demand $300,000 from Ayling’s agent.
If they didn’t receive the money, they would sell Ayling as a sex slave on the dark web. The suspects involved in the operation claimed to be a part of an organization called the “Black Death Group” – a group supposedly operating within the dark web.
The leading suspect and the one who released Ayling from captivity is a 30-year-old Polish citizen, Lukasz Pawel Herba.
“Investigators discovered evidence that the suspect, Herba, may have previously organized several online auctions of abducted women, through ads he allegedly described the women and set starting prices. Police said it is unclear whether he actually abducted the women or whether they had ever really been for sale.”
