Dread (forum)
Dread is a Reddit-like dark web discussion forum featuring news and discussions around darknet markets. The site's administrators go by the alias of Paris and HugBunter.[3]
Type of site
English
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HugBunter
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2018
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History[edit]
Dread is a popular community hub which has been described as a "Reddit-style forum" and the successor of the seized DeepDotWeb for discussion around market law enforcement activity and scams.[4][5] It came to prominence in 2018 after Reddit banned several darknet market discussion communities, rapidly reaching 12,000 registered users within three months of being launched, and 14,683 users by June 2018.[6] In September 2019, HugBunter's dead man's switch was triggered,[7] accompanied by a weeks-long absence, signifying the temporary loss of control over the site. The site would be reinstated in November,[8] with a revamped user interface, and remains active as of September 2022. It became known that the cause of the outage was a server failure, according to HugBunter,[8] despite rumors concerning a potential compromising from a third party or law-enforcement authority.
Activities[edit]
In May 2019 a moderator of Wall Street Market posted its hidden IP address to Dread, potentially leading to its exit scam and seizure shortly after.[9][10][11] Stolen data is sometimes sold via Dread.[12] The site features in-depth guides around manufacture of illegal drugs.[13] The shutdown of Dream Market was announced on Dread in March 2019.[14] Major denial-of-service attacks have been launched against Dread and other markets exploiting a vulnerability in the Tor protocol.[15]