354 dark web vendors and buyers arrested in Operation TorNado

Europol and police in 14 countries arrested 354 dark web vendors and buyers in Operation TorNado, which ran from May 2025 to October 2026.

Investigators went after people who had traded on five marketplaces that were already offline: Archetyp, Bohemia, Nemesis, Kingdom and Tor2Door.

The people who used those markets were still exposed after the sites went dark.

Police also went after vendors and buyers on forums, single-vendor shops and encrypted messaging services, and carried out hundreds of house searches.