Dread (forum)
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Type of site | Dark web forum |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | HugBunter |
| Created by | HugBunter |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2018 |
| Current status | Active |
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.[1]
History
Dread 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.[2][3] 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.[4] In September 2019, HugBunter's dead man's switch was triggered,[5] accompanied by a weeks-long absence, signifying the temporary loss of control over the site. The site would be reinstated in November,[6] 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,[6] despite rumors[by whom?] concerning a potential compromising from a third party or law-enforcement authority.
Activities
In 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.[7][8][9] Stolen data is sometimes sold via Dread.[10] The site features in-depth guides around manufacture of illegal drugs.[11] The shutdown of Dream Market was announced on Dread in March 2019.[12] Major denial-of-service attacks have been launched against Dread and other markets exploiting a vulnerability in the Tor protocol.[13]
References
- ↑ Power, Mike (10 April 2019). "The World's Biggest Dark Net Market Has Shut Down—What's Next?". https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjmw3w/the-worlds-biggest-dark-net-market-has-shut-downwhats-next-1.
- ↑ Greenberg, Andy (5 September 2019). "Feds Dismantled the Dark-Web Drug Trade—but It's Already Rebuilding". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/story/dark-web-drug-takedowns-deepdotweb-rebound/. Retrieved 26 October 2019.
- ↑ Popper, Nathaniel (11 June 2019). "Dark Web Drug Sellers Dodge Police Crackdowns" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/technology/online-dark-web-drug-markets.html.
- ↑ Mason, James (22 June 2018). "Darknet markets: everything changes but nothing's different". https://www.governmenteuropa.eu/darknet-markets/88728/.
- ↑ "HugBunter's Deadman has been Switched". 27 Sep 2019. https://darknetlive.com/post/hugbunters-deadman-has-been-switched/.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Dread Forum". https://dnstats.net/site/dread/.
- ↑ Cimpanu, Catalin (2 May 2019). "Law enforcement seizes dark web market after moderator leaks backend credentials". https://www.zdnet.com/article/law-enforcement-seizes-dark-web-market-after-moderator-leaks-backend-credentials/.
- ↑ Lloyd, Tim (23 April 2019). "Exit Scam: Suspicion Grows Over Dark-Web Market's $30 Million Crypto Theft". https://www.ccn.com/exit-scam-ark-web-market-30-million-theft/.
- ↑ Muncaster, Phil (25 April 2019). "Dark Web's Wall Street Market Suspected of Exit Scam". https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/dark-webs-wall-street-market-1-1/.
- ↑ Memoria, Francisco (20 January 2019). "Hacked Customer Data From World Leading Cryptocurrency Exchanges For Sale On The Dark Web?". https://www.ccn.com/hacked-customer-data-from-world-leading-cryptocurrency-exchanges-for-sale-on-the-dark-web/.
- ↑ Kiel, Tom (19 February 2019). "Inside the Dark Web Forum That Tells You How to Make Drugs". https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wj374q/inside-the-dark-web-forum-that-tells-you-how-to-make-drugs.
- ↑ Cimpanu, Catalin (26 March 2019). "Top dark web marketplace will shut down next month". https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-dark-web-marketplace-will-shut-down-next-month/.
- ↑ Cimpanu, Catalin (5 July 2019). "Tor Project to fix bug used for DDoS attacks on Onion sites for years". https://www.zdnet.com/article/tor-project-to-fix-bug-used-for-ddos-attacks-on-onion-sites-for-years/.
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