The Akira ransomware gang, which emerged in March 2023, provided hackers with a platform to extort victims by stealing and encrypting data, according to the FBI.In its first year of operation, Akira earned $42 million from about 250 attacks, the FBI said.

The r00t gang has provided multiple news links claiming that law enforcement agencies are also disrupting the Tor network, attempting to legitimize their own attacks.

Since the first version of BreachForums was founded in March 2022, BreachForums has gone through five administrators as sorted out by “ODN”: Pompompurin, Baphomet, ShinyHunters, Anastasia, IntelBroker, Anastasia, and IntelBroker, each of which will be introduced in this article.

According to preliminary assessments, the administrator of Fish Market, GoFish, has absconded with the users' cryptocurrencies. Meanwhile, the person posting announcements on the Dread forum, the unfortunate Byt3s, is not actually an administrator of the market but merely a staff member involved in management. He, too, was deceived by the real administrator.

The user stated that as long as the organization continues to operate Tor exit nodes, they face the risk of more police raids. Therefore, he is no longer willing to provide his personal address and office space as the registered address for the nonprofit, as he is unwilling to bear this risk any longer.

Founded on November 17, 2023, Atlas Market claims to be a dark web marketplace focused on user experience, with the goal of “providing the best possible user experience for buyers and sellers.”

There are many netizens who try to buy guns and ammunition and all kinds of weapons within the dark web and Telegram groups, but if they can learn more about the strict laws of each country and the tight international express delivery mechanism, the probability is that they will be dissuaded from this idea, otherwise the only thing left is to be cheated.

What exactly is the identity of ShinyHunters, whether BreachForums is an FBI honeypot or not, and why BreachForums was suddenly shut down and then suddenly restored remain confusing, all are question marks left for time to answer.

The third version of BreachForums has again suffered a huge blow, with both the clearnet and dark web sites inaccessible, the administrator ShinyHunters' Telegram account deleted, and the new BreachForums channel and Jacuzzi 2.0 chat groups similarly deleted.

The function of the scam darknet marketplace “BlackMart” is not much different from the last introduction, and the overall fresh and simple website design has not changed, only the color of the logo has been changed from orange to green, but the scamming techniques are still the same, so please be careful in identifying and visiting the site, and stay away from scams.