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WASHINGTON – The U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday it had shut down the dark web marketplace AlphaBay, working with international partners to knock offline the site accused of allowing a global trade in drugs, firearms, computer hacking tools and other illicit goods. While the Silk Road’s primary focus was drug sales, AlphaBay was more diverse, selling stolen credit-card numbers, drugs, online-fraud tutorials and guns, according to Andrei Barysevich, a director at Recorded Future Inc., which sells data about online threats and the Dark Web. The closing of AlphaBay, an anonymous marketplace that listed for sale drugs, counterfeit credit cards and other illegal goods, came after coordinated action by the U.S., Canada and Thailand, the people said.
Five years after it was torn offline, the resurrected dark web marketplace is clawing its way back to the top of the online underworld. “AlphaBay sold drugs, guns and hacking tools online — until a sting operation shut it down”. Ironically, some of the services that can be bought and sold on the AlphaBay Market include spam sending services, “bank drops” , account details, and other services useful to fraudsters engaged in phishing. This attack could therefore be viewed as yet another example of fraudsters defrauding fraudsters. The genuine AlphaBay hidden service uses the address pwoah7foa6au2pul.onion.
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Kinger’s ominous threat suggested they knew his real life identity and his citizenship was actually Dutch. Implement NIST’s risk management framework, from defining risks to selecting, implementing and monitoring information security controls. Covering topics in risk management, compliance, fraud, and information security. But as part of “Operation Bayonet,” spearheaded by the FBI and the EU’s law enforcement agency, Europol, authorities in mid-2017 took down the site, Thai police arrested Cazes, who was later found dead in his jail cell. AlphaBay’s creator and administrator, Alexandre Cazes—who went by the names Alpha02 and Admin online—was arrested by Thai authorities on behalf of the U.S. on July 5, 2017. A week later, Cazes apparently took his own life while in custody in Thailand.
Our searches for the truth have led us to believe that he was Epstein’d (or should we say Mcafee’d more recently?) in a way which shocked everyone. He did not deserve that, I knew him and he really was a nice, bright guy who was genuine about the community and people regardless of what he did. Haven’t been able to get onto the market since about February 9th-10th. Even learned how to use I2P for the first time and that won’t work either. Default privacy for buyers makes all profiles private by default.
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The FBI seized bitcoins (worth about $33.6 million, at the time) from the site, which were later sold in a series of auctions by the United States Marshals Service . AlphaBay, also known as “the new Silk Road,” has been shut down since Tuesday night. The site also came in the news at the beginning of this year when a hacker successfully hacked the AlphaBay site and stole over 200,000 private unencrypted messages from several users. AlphaBay and Hansa Market were two of the top three criminal marketplaces on the dark web, Europol chief Rob Wainwright said at the press conference. News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. The new management believes in the future and encourages everybody to use I2P.
- Developed from scratch and battle-tested for years AlphaGuard which ensures even if seizures happen on all servers, users will be able to withdraw their funds, settle disputes and leave without a cent lost.
- To increase drugs safety usage within AlphaBay as well as availability of more ‘pure products’, ScamWatch has a new extended function, through undisclosed methods and techniques, making sure vendor products are what they claim they are and are not fake/laced with fentanyl etc.
- Vendors will be able to sell on multiple markets seemlessly or even create their own shop while preserving their anonimity and security.
- In addition we want to use our experience in counter-surveillance, counter-signal intelligence and operational security knowledge to teach users, vendors and future darknet admins what they could do to keep themselves and their lives free from Law Enforcement.
- DeSnake claimed they were the victim of distributed denial-of-service attacks from a rival scammer.
- The system, which has been in development for nearly two years, has had a standalone testing period of over a year and so far, so good.
The investigation into AlphaBay revealed that numerous vendors sold fentanyl and heroin, and there have been multiple overdose deaths across the country attributed to purchases on the site. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Georgia identified an AlphaBay staffer living in the United States. “AlphaBay taken down by law enforcement across 3 countries, WSJ says”. “Canadian allegedly behind shuttered Dark Web market AlphaBay”.
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Almost all of our servers are kept in locations with high amount of armed guards and multiple security protocols to pass through before accessing the server racks. Our hosting providers are proven bulletproof which means they will not respond to Law Enforcement requests – local or international. Over time I tried to deal with the situation as I had seen many arrests of people in the game for over 20 years some with fatal fates but never one where a person was killed in custody by Law Enforcement. Shocking as the AlphaBay situation was, what really struck me and gave me the ‘Fuck it’ moment was the infamous college/university presentation of US agents showing a never seen before in public video of the arrest. Seeing the agent laughing and mocking the arrest in a high-spirited manner making it as if he was doing stand-up and the students infront of him were his audience.
“I want to dedicate this to alpha02 first and foremost we promised each other to go to the bitter end, here I am keeping my end of the deal.” When AlphaBay first reappeared, Gray and other dark web analysts and users expressed suspicion that DeSnake might be compromised by law enforcement. Details of 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 the site. Criminologist David Decary-Hetu noted this event as notable for being 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.
AlphaGuard is a very well tested system which ensures even if seizures happen on all servers, users will be able to withdraw their funds, settle disputes and leave without a cent lost. The system has been in development for 2 years with countless tests and has had a standalone testing period of 1 year+ where it ran on its own. AlphaGuard is quite advanced piece of code which can run even without having access to any servers provided by Administration.
One of, if not the most popular destination for illicit goods on the dark net, the site took over Silk Road’s throne after its founder was arrested. According to a new report, AlphaBay has suffered the same fate and international authorities have shut it down. In the future our decentralized network will take care the problem of wallet trust which has been a plague to the darknet market scene for so long. Market admins will finally be able to focus on business development and customer support, exactly what we are doing now but it will be enforceable by the network and its hardcoded protocols. Private sub-forums are back, this time extending to communities like hacking, carding etc. to replace the recent demise of famous underground forums. If you are a advanced/elite individual and want to share a private discussion board with other members of your statue to exchange ideas, code, data or simply to do business, any of our private, vetted and verified members only sub-communities are for you.
