Type of site | Dark web forum |
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Available in | English |
Owner | HugBunter and Paris |
Created by | HugBunter |
URL | g66ol3eb5ujdckzqqfmjsbpdjufmjd5nsgdipvxmsh7rckzlhywlzlqd.onion
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Registration | Optional |
Launched | 2018 |
Current status | Active (.onion only) |
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]
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. [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.
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. [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]
Type of site | Dark web forum |
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Available in | English |
Owner | HugBunter and Paris |
Created by | HugBunter |
URL | g66ol3eb5ujdckzqqfmjsbpdjufmjd5nsgdipvxmsh7rckzlhywlzlqd.onion
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Accessing link help)
[1] dreadtoobigdsrxg4yfspcyjr3k6675vftyco5pyb7wg4pr4dwjq.b32.i2p ( Accessing link help) [2] |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 2018 |
Current status | Active (.onion only) |
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]
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. [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.
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. [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]