Anonymous journalist researching Tor: the uncensored internet. Privacy is a human right. torproject.org
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DarkMarket is the first market run by women. They accept Bitcoin and Monero, and run on the Eckmar marketplace script. I normally do not trust Eckmar markets, but this team is trusted by most major vendors. 1400 vendors, 220k users, according to their counts.
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Cannazon is a cannabis-only market and has the friendliest user guides I've seen. Will their narrow approach draw less heat? Bitcoin and Monero are accepted. (none of these tweets are endorsements, this is for researchers only)
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This could just be a configuration mistake, the invalid SSL cert is really for admin3[.]hot-chilli[.]net. Follow along on their status page: uptime.jabber.hot-chilli.net…
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"I believed in my leader through the very end. I still believe even now as irrational hope fades for their return." - Melbourne, Empire moderator and PR.
There's no indication that Empire staff knew or profited from the exit, but if you need to see a mod roasted log into Dread.
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Se7en, Empire's head moderator, has posted their first statement since the downtime began: "If the market is still down in a couple of days I'll make a post about the whole situation then, it's early days and maybe the admins will bring it back."
Wait... "maybe"!?
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Careful. Phishers run clones of the real Dark.fail which link to malicious URLs. Always PGP verify and bookmark URLs.
Help me keep track of phishing links circulating on Tor, edits are welcomed at phishy-onions: github.com/DarkDotFail/phish…
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Phishers are modifying their sites to allow any username and password to "log in" to their fake Empires.
They cannot withdraw any user funds from stolen PINs since Empire is offline, but they can save credentials for later and expect a big payday if Empire returns.
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"Beware the many false narratives and FUD circulating. We are here and are hard at work. Doing anything safely takes time." - PGP verified update from Empire Market staff on Dread
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Dread's co-admin Paris believes that Russia's largest darknet market Hydra uses a custom multi-threaded Tor implementation to stay online despite DDoS attacks. It's hard to verify this, but their uptime is nearly perfect.
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Empire's Forum is back online, loading very slowly until you get past the Endgame DDoS filter. dark.fail/empire-forum
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Last week Se7en, Empire's head moderator, posted a "State of the Darkweb" to Dread calling out phishers, doxxers, and alleged LE cooperators in the community.
The DDoS attack now keeping Empire offline is possibly a retaliation for this post. Full text: dark.fail/archives/empire/20…
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"Many want to see us fall but we are not going anywhere. Long live the Empire." - an update from Empire Market staff on Dread.
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Here's a glance behind the scenes of what a Tor admin sees during a DDoS attack, one of our servers' 24 busy cores processing around 500mbit of onionbalanced Tor traffic.
A heartfelt "thank you!" to our donors, we would not be able to withstand attacks without powerful servers.
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An Empire staff member posted a valid PGP signed update to Dread confirming a DDoS attack. Empire, launched in 2018, is the darknet's largest market. Every hour of downtime is a jackpot to phishers and competitors.
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23,903 Bitcoin. Buyersclub was recently indicted in the USA, a major oxy vendor on the Silk Road and AlphaBay darknet markets. justice.gov/opa/pr/american-…
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"WikiLeaks knowingly accepted materials from actors publicly identified as Russian intelligence ... and then lied about it. We can't promise we'll never be fooled, but we can promise to never lie to you about our sources." - @natsecgeek of You-Know-Who
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Twitter still demotes posts that mention the Leak-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named. Did you see my last few tweets?
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