Dread is a Reddit-like dark web discussion forum featuring news and discussions around darknet markets. The site's administrators go by the alias of Paris and HugBunter.[3]
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Type of site | Dark web forum |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | HugBunter and Paris |
| Created by | HugBunter |
| URL | g66ol3eb5ujdckzqqfmjsbpdjufmjd5nsgdipvxmsh7rckzlhywlzlqd.onion  (Accessing link help)[1]dreadtoobigdsrxg4yfspcyjr3k6675vftyco5pyb7wg4pr4dwjq.b32.i2p  (Accessing link help)[2] |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2018 |
| Current status | Active (.onion only) |
History
editDread is a popular community hub which has been described as a "Reddit-style forum" and the successor of the seized DeepDotWeb for discussion around market law enforcement activity and scams.[4][5] It came to prominence in 2018 after Reddit banned several darknet market discussion communities, rapidly reaching 12,000 registered users within three months of being launched, and 14,683 users by June 2018.[6] In September 2019, HugBunter's dead man's switch was triggered,[7] accompanied by a weeks-long absence, signifying the temporary loss of control over the site. The site would be reinstated in November,[8] with a revamped user interface, and remains active as of September 2022. It became known that the cause of the outage was a server failure, according to HugBunter,[8] despite rumors[by whom?] concerning a potential compromising from a third party or law-enforcement authority.
Activities
editIn May 2019 a moderator of Wall Street Market posted its hidden IP address to Dread, potentially leading to its exit scam and seizure shortly after.[9][10][11] Stolen data is sometimes sold via Dread.[12] The site features in-depth guides around manufacture of illegal drugs.[13] The shutdown of Dream Market was announced on Dread in March 2019.[14] Major denial-of-service attacks have been launched against Dread and other markets exploiting a vulnerability in the Tor protocol.[15]
References
edit- ^ "tor.taxi". tor.taxi. Retrieved March 10, 2024.
- ^ "tor.taxi - Dread". tor.taxi. Retrieved March 6, 2023.
- ^ Power, Mike (10 April 2019). "The World's Biggest Dark Net Market Has Shut Down—What's Next?". Archived from the original on 15 December 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Greenberg, Andy (5 September 2019). "Feds Dismantled the Dark-Web Drug Trade—but It's Already Rebuilding". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Popper, Nathaniel (11 June 2019). "Dark Web Drug Sellers Dodge Police Crackdowns". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 2020-07-01. Retrieved 2020-07-08.
- ^ Mason, James (22 June 2018). "Darknet markets: everything changes but nothing's different". Archived from the original on 30 July 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ "HugBunter's Deadman has been Switched". Darknetlive. 27 Sep 2019. Retrieved 13 Sep 2022.
- ^ a b "Dread Forum". dnstats.net.
- ^ Cimpanu, Catalin (2 May 2019). "Law enforcement seizes dark web market after moderator leaks backend credentials". Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Lloyd, Tim (23 April 2019). "Exit Scam: Suspicion Grows Over Dark-Web Market's $30 Million Crypto Theft". Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Muncaster, Phil (25 April 2019). "Dark Web's Wall Street Market Suspected of Exit Scam". Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Memoria, Francisco (20 January 2019). "Hacked Customer Data From World Leading Cryptocurrency Exchanges For Sale On The Dark Web?". Archived from the original on 26 October 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Kiel, Tom (19 February 2019). "Inside the Dark Web Forum That Tells You How to Make Drugs". Archived from the original on 3 August 2019. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ Cimpanu, Catalin (26 March 2019). "Top dark web marketplace will shut down next month". Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ^ Cimpanu, Catalin (5 July 2019). "Tor Project to fix bug used for DDoS attacks on Onion sites for years". Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2019.