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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Libre Forum, a new forum coded from scratch, claims to want to provide the dark web community with an alternative to freely discussing the ideas of dark web users. They are still in the early stages of building the site, so there is a lot to look forward to. The forum has a nice user interface and full functionality, and access is relatively quick.

Dread admin "Hugbunter" says the Dread forums are hopeful of a return within a week, while the Dread dark web v3 URL is now properly accessible and the page has two announcements revealing the progress of the Dread update and that it will be back at full speed soon.

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.