Dark Spider Web Users Suspect Dream Marketplace Has Likewise Been Backdoored Yesteryear Feds

By at nowadays you lot mightiness move aware of the took downward of 2 of the largest online night websites—AlphaBay in addition to Hansa—in what's beingness called the largest-ever international functioning against the night web's dark marketplace conducted yesteryear the FBI, DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) in addition to Dutch National Police.

But the interesting facial expression of the takedown was that the federal regime shut downward AlphaBay, but took command of the Hansa marketplace in addition to kept it running for at to the lowest degree a calendar month inwards an essay to monitor the activities of its visitors.

The visitors of Hansa marketplace also included a massive overflowing of Alphabay refugees, every bit the seizer of AlphaBay Market forced their visitors to bring together the Hansa marketplace for illegal trading in addition to purchasing.

However, non merely Hansa, later on AlphaBay's shutdown, many of its users also joined roughly other website known every bit Dream Market, which is believed to move the second-largest night spider web marketplace, ahead of Hansa.

After the shutdown of both AlphaBay in addition to Hansa, Dream Market has emerged every bit the leading player, but at nowadays roughly Reddit users on several "r/Dream_Market" threads demand maintain expressed concerns most the Dream Market, which has been inwards work concern since 2013.

One Reddit user said that Dream Market has been compromised inwards a like mode every bit Hansa in addition to is already nether constabulary control.

"I got contacted yesteryear an ex-Hansa staff fellow member telling me that the functioning is evidently bigger than nosotros currently assume, that 'there volition move a bloodbath, a purge' in addition to that 'any vendor on HANSA should at i time seize his operation, lawyer upwards in addition to enshroud his trails'," the Reddit user post read.

Possibly the Real IP of Dream Market "Mistakenly" Exposed

Another Redditor claimed to demand maintain discovered a non-encrypted IP address inwards Dream Market’s source code, maxim that constabulary mightiness demand maintain taken over command of the night marketplace every bit good in addition to are at nowadays actively monitoring its visitors.

"We constitute a clear address IP on the javascript source code of the market. The constabulary must know it from a long time. GO AWAY FROM HERE RIGHT NOW !!!," the Redditor wrote along amongst a slice of Site's Source Code.

After exploring a bit, I constitute that the clearnet IP address 194.9.94.82 mentioned inwards the JavaScript file (lchudifyeqm4ldjj.onion/market.js) is owned yesteryear "Loopia AB," a Swedish hosting company.

This JavaScript file has non been added or altered recently, every bit according to roughly moderators, the file has been at that topographic point from at to the lowest degree yesteryear nine months, in addition to the code itself doesn’t betoken whatever signs of hijack or interception.

However, here's the large blunder — Exposure of the possible existent IP address of the server, which is supposed to move hidden behind the Tor Onion Router, is i of the biggest mistakes Dream Market operators mightiness demand maintain made that could demand maintain already given an chance to law enforcement agencies to raid the hosting companionship in addition to demand maintain command of the servers.

While the claims that Dream Market is nether constabulary command are yet to move verified, vendors who joined Dream Market may nonetheless move compromised yesteryear law enforcement.

Meanwhile, roughly anonymous users on Reddit are also encouraging night spider web users to catch Dream Market, maxim "CALM DOWN! DREAM IS WORKING FINE!"

Benefitted from the shutdown of its rivals, Dream Market had 57,000 listings for drugs in addition to 4,000 listings for opioids on Thursday.

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