Research published by Sophos at Black Hat Europe details the burgeoning sub-fraud economy in underground cybercrime targeting users of dark web forums.

According to Dread administrator Paris, Tor's daemon nodes have gone offline en masse in recent days, making it easier for attackers to make sites like Dread inaccessible. ".

Dread is a popular community center, a Tor-based free speech platform, a Reddit-like discussion forum on the dark web, described as a "Reddit-style forum" and recognized as the successor to the censored "DeepDotWeb", featuring news and discussions on the dark web marketplace, and is currently the largest English-language forum on the dark web.