A popular dark net marketplace for buying and selling drugs has been offline for three days, fuelling speculation about its fate and despair among some users. They are either arrested by law enforcement, or participate in an “exit scam” in which they steal deposits from users, he said. A variety of illegal goods and services are bought and sold on the dark web with cryptocurrency, including drugs and malware that can be used in cyber scams. Users of the dark net marketplace are mourning its loss, and their missing cryptocurrency, on online forums. “Other dark web marketplaces remain, such as ‘White House’ and ‘DarkMarket’, which may see a large influx of dark web marketplace users and vendors.

Source: The Star August 28, 2020 00:22 UTC