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22-441: The creators claimed in an interview with DeepDotWeb that the site was founded in direct response to the number of dark websites which have emerged during the past few years which do not actually have anything of value to sell and are just scams. The site relied on Tor and bitcoin similar to other darknet markets but required multi-signature transactions. There was speculation in the computer security community as to whether

44-488: A steady growth, with 14,000 new users in the first 90 days of operation. In October 2015, it was recognized as the largest online darknet market according to Dan Palumbo, research director at Digital Citizens Alliance . Non-standard services included customizable digital contracts around building reputations. In May 2015, the site announced an integrated digital contracts and escrow system. The contract system allows users to make engagements and agree to provide services in

66-742: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . DeepDotWeb DeepDotWeb was a news site dedicated to events in and surrounding the dark web featuring interviews and reviews about darknet markets , Tor hidden services , privacy , bitcoin , and related news. The website was seized on May 7, 2019, during an investigation into the owners' affiliate marketing model, in which they received money for posting links to certain darknet markets, and for which they were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering. In March 2021 site administrator Tal Prihar pleaded guilty to his charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering. Coverage has included darknet market drug busts, pedophile crowdfunding ,

88-613: Is an accepted version of this page AlphaBay was a darknet market operating at different times between September 2014 and February 2023. At times, it was both an onion service on the Tor network and an I2P node on I2P . After it was shut down in July 2017 following law enforcement action in the United States, Canada, and Thailand as part of Operation Bayonet , it was relaunched in August 2021 by

110-505: The Department of Justice, while DeepDotWeb was in operation a total of 23.6 percent of all orders completed on AlphaBay involved DeepDotWeb. In March 2021 site administrator Tal Prihar pleaded guilty to his charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering. In January 2022, site administrator Tal Prihar was sentenced to 97 months in prison for money laundering. He was ordered to forfeit more than $ 8.4 million. AlphaBay This

132-526: The London-based telecommunications company TalkTalk sustained a major hack . The stolen data was put for sale on AlphaBay Market, which led to the arrest of a 15-year-old boy. TalkTalk CEO Dido Harding issued the following statement: "TalkTalk constantly updates its systems to make sure they are as secure as possible against the rapidly evolving threat of cyber crime, impacting an increasing number of individuals and organisations. We take any threat to

154-518: The deep web. In May 2019 site owners, Tal Prihar and Michael Phan were indicted in United States court, each on one charge of conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to the United States Department of Justice , DeepDotWeb received about $ 8.4 million in kickbacks from purchases of fentanyl, firearms, hacking tools, and other contraband on Darknet marketplaces, and transferred this to personal wallets using shell companies. According to

176-677: The deepdotweb.com and its sister .onion domain were redirected to a Domain Seizure notice. The notice was presented by the FBI and prominently displayed the logos of EUROPOL and numerous affiliate law enforcement agencies, including the British National Crime Agency and the German Bundeskriminalamt . The Israeli police alleged that the owners of DeepDotWeb had been receiving Bitcoin in exchange for links to black market sites on

198-399: The details of hacking of darknet markets, as well as the diversification of markets such as TheRealDeal selling software exploits . Site features included blacklisted markets, comparisons, and reviews. In May 2015, McAfee covered a free ransomware -as-a-service called 'Tox' hosted somewhere on the dark web whose developers gave an interview to DeepDotWeb. On May 7, 2019,

220-451: The first example of criminal services being sold over a darkmarket. He said, "All the cases I have heard of so far turned out to be law enforcement trying to find people of interest," making this case unique in his experience to that point. By July 2017, AlphaBay was ten times the size of its predecessor Silk Road (which was busted in October 2013), had over 369,000 listings, 400,000 users,

242-414: The future, according to the terms of the contract . By October 2015, AlphaBay had over 200,000 users, and a claimed 40,000 sellers. At the time of its demise in July 2017, AlphaBay had over 400,000 users, and around 300,000 listed items on their website. In addition to bitcoin , AlphaBay implemented support for Monero in August 2016. It also accepted Ethereum . In April 2016, AlphaBay's API

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264-444: The market went into lockdown, preventing users with 2FA verification from logging in. Accounts affected included all of the site staff and vendors. As admin team member TheCypriot explained in a Reddit post, the site went into partial lockdown due to one of its canaries not being signed in time by DeSnake. They did not reappear to rectify the problem and have not been heard from since. With its owner missing and staff unable to sign

286-416: The narcotic fentanyl , pornography, and "hitman services" . Furthermore, there is a ban on discussions of any public or private information related to the governments, organizations, or people of Russia , Belarus , Kazakhstan , Armenia , and Kyrgyzstan . This has led to loose speculation that there is a connection between the site operators and the governments of these nations. In early February 2023,

308-420: The new operation surfaced after a conversation between Wired and a user with the same verified public key as a former site administrator for AlphaBay. Using the alias DeSnake, the former vendor and self-described co-founder of the original AlphaBay now claims to operate the marketplace, placing a higher emphasis on operations security than the previous administration, stating "there is no overkill" regarding

330-460: The news for selling stolen Uber accounts. Uber made a statement regarding a potential data breach: "We investigated and found no evidence of a breach. Attempting to fraudulently access or sell accounts is illegal and we notified the authorities about this report. This is a good opportunity to remind people to use strong and unique usernames and passwords and to avoid reusing the same credentials across multiple sites and services." In October 2015,

352-494: The security of our customers' data extremely seriously and we are taking all the necessary steps to understand what has happened here." In August 2017, AlphaBay was revealed as a possible venue by which one of the perpetrators of the 2017 Jewish Community Center bomb threats may have sold a "School Email Bomb Threat Service." This individual, Michael Kadar, made 245 threatening calls to schools and community centers. Criminologist David Decary-Hetu noted this event as notable for being

374-557: The self-described co-founder and security administrator DeSnake. The alleged original founder, Alexandre Cazes, a Canadian citizen born on 19 October 1991, was found dead in his cell in Thailand several days after his arrest, with police suspecting suicide . AlphaBay reportedly launched in September 2014, pre-launched in November 2014 and officially launched on December 22, 2014. It saw

396-452: The site is a law enforcement sting operation due to apparent listing of exploits at many times below their potential market value. In July 2015 the website was down for 24 hours at the same time as cyber crime forum Darkode was seized by the FBI and various members arrested in ' Operation Shrouded Horizon '. On 13 August in 2015 the site went offline for unknown reasons. On December 1 it announced its reopening on DeepDotWeb . The Real Deal

418-512: The site. As part of the site's relaunch, multiple new features have been advertised and new rules announced. Notable among new features are AlphaGuard (which allegedly prevents users from losing funds even if seizures on all servers occur at the same time), an automatic system to resolve disputes between buyers and sellers, exclusive use of Monero wallets, and the offering of I2P mirrors. Concerning rules, items newly prohibited from sale include COVID-19 vaccines , firearms , products containing

440-493: Was compromised, leading to 13,000 messages being stolen. In January 2017, the API was once again compromised, allowing over 200,000 private messages from the last 30 days and a list of usernames to be leaked. The attack was from a single hacker who was paid by AlphaBay for the disclosure. AlphaBay reported that the exploit had only been used in conjunction with this attack and not used previously. On March 28, 2015, AlphaBay Market made

462-492: Was facilitating US$ 600,000-$ 800,000 of transactions per day, and had reportedly built a strong reputation. However, a series of elementary operational security errors led to its downfall: Law enforcement took at least one month to obtain a US warrant, then over one month to obtain foreign warrants, prepare for and execute searches and seizures in Canada and Thailand: AlphaBay was relaunched as early as 8 August 2021. Details of

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484-509: Was shut down in November 2016. In 2020, cybersecurity author Vinny Troia provided an analysis of the marketplace's MySQL database, which revealed two of the site's three admins to be members of The Dark Overlord hacking group. This article related to the Tor network is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a commerce website is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This crime -related article

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