HugBunter, the administrator of Dread, announced that DDoS attacks have increased and access to the main onion domain could not be restored immediately due to a lack of sufficient resources. People can access Dread through a private mirror link, which is strongly protected and is expected to remain online for the time being.

With more than 123,000 commodity items already available, ASAP Market is undoubtedly one of the largest dark web marketplaces of all time by this particular metric. ASAP Market is widely recognized by the dark web community as a competent and mature operation that works closely with buyers and vendors to provide a smooth marketplace experience as well as an excellent user experience.

OnniForums describes itself as a hacking forum focused on security and anonymity, offering hacking tutorials, database leaks, marketplaces and more for all users. "ODN" visited OnniForums' dark web site and tried to register.

The Exposed forum had gained widespread popularity for leaking the Raidforums user database and was once considered a replacement for the Breached forum, which was announced to be closed. "ODN" will continue to follow up on whether the relaunch of the Breached forum led to the closure of the Exposed forum.

The Vice City market was launched in May 2020 and has gained considerable notoriety in its nearly three years of operation. Although during this process, the dark web market suffered considerable downtime and connection issues, basic functions were often unavailable, but was always able to eventually recover. Therefore, the current issues with the market may only be temporary.

DarkTracer and DarkTrace are two different companies, and it's clear that the LockBit ransomware group got confused! It seems that Darktrace company has not been breached by LockBit - and has not even been a target. Instead, the newly added entry on the LockBit leak site is apparently a response to recent tweets from DarkTracer, a Singaporean dark web threat intelligence company that has nothing to do with Darktrace company.

Elude.in, once considered one of the most reliable anonymous encryption exchange services on the dark web, has been in operation for over five years. In addition to serving as a cryptocurrency exchange and mixer, they also provide a free anonymous email service, which is also popular among dark web users. It is confusing that currently, Elude.in's dark and clear web sites, along with all of its services, remain online, seeming to carry out the exit scam to the end.

Only a few days after a dramatic relaunch, Dread, a well-known forum focused on communicating about the dark web market, is once again offline for the same reason: what co-administrator HugBunter calls a "well-funded DDOS attack". The high volume of DDOS attacks, even though the site has been updated and revamped, is still indefensible.

Dread Forum was officially restored on March 6, although it seems to be back to normal, however, not every time can be successfully accessed, now access to its dark website most of the time is still showing the status page.

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