{"id":9659,"date":"2026-01-06T05:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/telegram-hosting-worlds-largest-darknet-market-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T05:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:03:27","slug":"telegram-hosting-worlds-largest-darknet-market-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/telegram-hosting-worlds-largest-darknet-market-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Telegram Hosting World\u2019s Largest Darknet Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>Telegram Hosting World\u2019s Largest Darknet Market<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Wired is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/expired-tired-wired-chinese-scammer-crypto-markets\/\">reporting<\/a> on Chinese darknet markets on Telegram.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ecosystem of marketplaces for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers hosted on the messaging service Telegram have now grown to be bigger than ever before, according to a new analysis from the crypto tracing firm Elliptic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elliptic.co\/blog\/telegram-dark-markets-expand-to-fill-the-gap-left-by-huione-guarantee\">Despite a brief drop<\/a> after Telegram banned two of the biggest such markets in early 2025, the two current top markets, known as Tudou Guarantee and Xinbi Guarantee, are together enabling close to $2 billion a month in money-laundering transactions, sales of scam tools like stolen data, fake investment websites, and AI deepfake tools, as well as other black market services as varied as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/the-baby-died-whose-fault-is-it-surrogate-pregnancy\/\">pregnancy surrogacy<\/a> and teen prostitution.<\/p>\n<p>The crypto romance and investment scams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/interpol-pig-butchering-scams-rename\/\">regrettably known as \u201cpig butchering\u201d<\/a>\u2014carried out largely from compounds in Southeast Asia staffed with thousands of human trafficking victims\u2014have grown to become the world\u2019s most lucrative form of cybercrime. They pull in around $10 billion annually from US victims alone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/new-scam-center-strike-force-battles-southeast-asian-crypto-investment-fraud-targeting\">according to the FBI<\/a>. By selling money-laundering services and other scam-related offerings to those operations, markets like Tudou Guarantee and Xinbi Guarantee have grown in parallel to an immense scale.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bruce Schneier<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2026\/01\/telegram-hosting-worlds-largest-darknet-market.html\">Go to bruce schneier<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram Hosting World\u2019s Largest Darknet Market Wired is reporting on Chinese darknet markets on Telegram. The ecosystem of marketplaces for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers hosted on the messaging service Telegram have now grown to be bigger than ever before, according to a new analysis from the crypto tracing firm Elliptic. Despite a brief drop after Telegram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,479,1463,465,506,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-9659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-china","category-dark-web","category-scams","category-telegram","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}