After a brief exchange with the administrator of the "Eternity Project", a new dark web malware store, "ODN" discovered that the store was offline and that the administrator had shut down access to its website.

Launched three years ago, the Versus dark web marketplace was very popular among the cybercrime community, offering drugs, coin mixing, hacking services, stolen payment cards and the buying and selling of compromised databases. After discovering a serious vulnerability that could have allowed access to its database and exposed the IP addresses of its servers, the administrators of the Versus marketplace chose to shut down the site.

Another type of data extortion cybercrime activity has emerged on a dark web site called RansomHouse, which threatens actors with releasing evidence of stolen files and leaking data from organizations that refuse to pay the ransom. Presumably, the group is made up of security testers who are unhappy with the low bounty payments for vulnerabilities.

The Onion V3 domain name of the English-language dark web prepaid card provider "Hidden Cards" is http://nhkotz23d7zbxbdjupg4rptjzcaruqwx2qy7qwtby3hon5rr4yaddfqd.onion, which is confirmed to be a fraudulent website. We are determined to expose it and ask our users to beware of it.

Dark Web search engines use sophisticated software to crawl the dark web and index all the information they find. Once indexed, these search engines allow you to find that information through the search engine interface. This article lists 5 of the best dark web search engines.

Instructions in English and Russian on how to access the dark web site have appeared on the CIA's social media channels, and the CIA's dark web address is: http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion

The dark web marketplace "UnderMarket 2.0" with the domain name http://puyr3jb76flvqemhkllg5bttt2dmiaexs3ggmfpyewc44vt5265uuaad.onion is a fraudulent website. It does not ship after payment. Here to give exposure, please beware.

After analyzing REvil's dark web site, "ODN" believes that REvil has indeed made a comeback, and that it is not a phishing operation of the Russian Federal Security Service.

Brave Browser is a free open source browser built by Brendan Eich, the father of JavaScript, which boasts the ability to block all analytics and tracking components, and can block ads and trackers. Brave Browser has a "New private window with TOR" feature that allows users to access the dark web directly, just like using the Tor browser.

After Russia's largest dark web marketplace, Hydra, was shut down a few days ago by German and U.S. police, there is speculation about who will be the next "leader" in the industry among the remaining dark web marketplaces.