Kerala police zoom in on 25 dark web drug traffickers

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The state police have identified 25 people, mostly Keralites, who are engaged in drug trafficking through dark web.

The cyber division and the technical intelligence wing had launched the drive to identify the drug traffickers operating via dark web — an encrypted portion of the internet that cannot be indexed by search engines and require special software and tools to access it — after detecting a surge in such illegal transactions in the cyber space.