THELOGICALINDIAN - During the aftermost few weeks a cardinal of darknet markets DNMs like Empire and forums like Dread accept been attacked relentlessly with abundant DDoS attacks Meanwhile letters acknowledge that Apollon is allegedly affairs an avenue betray in the aforementioned appearance as Nightmare Market did aftermost year Darknetstatscom capacity that Apollon charcoal online and is accepting bitcoin deposits while all vendors are bound out of the platform
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**This commodity has been adapted on February 2-3 2020, to reflect the annotation by the Twitter annual Dark.fail who told news.Bitcoin.com that Darknetstats.com is overextension capricious advice about aggressive darknet markets and the Dread forum.**
Coincidental DDoS Attacks and a Possible Apollon Exit Scam
According to assorted reports, a agglomeration of DNMs are adversity from broadcast denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. News.Bitcoin.com reported on a array of DNMs that were offline due to abundant DDoS assaults. In mid-December 2019, sites like Cannazon, The Hub Forum, Hydra, Monopoly, Dread, Darknet Live, and Empire were bottomward according to the website Dark.fail. During the ages of January 2020, a lot of marketplaces were downed afresh by actuality again ambushed with DDoS attacks. Dread and Empire are two DNMs that accept been bottomward generally during the aftermost two weeks. At the aforementioned time, darknetstats.com claims that the Apollon bazaar ability be in the bosom of an avenue scam.
“Apollon Bazaar accustomed about in 2018 is a bazaar that offered drugs as able-bodied as artifice assets for the darknet users,” the darknetstats.com website detailed. “This is the bazaar that is endemic by a accumulation accepted as ‘Market Spammers.’” The website’s blog columnist added added:
Apollon Vendors Are Locked Out, But Vendor Accounts Show They Are Active
Darknetstats.com alleges that all of Apollon’s vendors are bound out of their accounts and some accounts were set to “vacation mode.” This agency the annual listings “turned alive to rake as abundant money from the users as they can.” An apparent Apollon bell-ringer dubbed ‘Shamanuk’ explained how the vacation approach about-face happened. “My abeyant bell-ringer listings are activity active,” Shamanuk stressed. Bell-ringer accounts [are] bound [and] client accounts are free. So they accomplish money. This guys, is a archetypal avenue betray — Please don’t buy there anymore.”
Reports additionally affirmation that the owners of Apollon ability be affiliated with the Dread appointment owners. Moreover, Apollon could additionally be angry to markets like Avaris, Whitehouse, Versus, Cannahome, and Monopoly. Coincidently, Apollon is the third bazaar that has avenue scammed while Dread, a Reddit-style forum, has been offline for 15 days. However, the buyer of the Twitter annual Dark.fail insists that Darknetstats.com is overextension “FUD” and the website’s advice is unfactual.
The Market Spammers Gang Looks to Strike Again
Darknetstats.com thinks the Dread DDoS attacks and avenue scams are connected. “Every time alarming is offline, a bazaar avenue scams — It isn’t aloof a accidental bazaar that goes offline, it’s their own bazaar that avenue scams, that’s because bodies can’t address the avenue betray in its aboriginal date to abstain accepting beneath than accepted returns,” darknetstats.com said. “You guys anticipate it’s a coincidence? We don’t anticipate so,” the website added. Additionally, two added markets (Avaris and Whitehouse) are actuality shilled heavily and are assuming signs of actuality affiliated with the ‘Market Spammers’ gang.
“The cessation is bright — We will see a able shilling in favor of Avaris Bazaar and anybody will be asked to accompany Avaris (and Whitehouse too) on Dread,” the website’s blog column concluded. “The accounts that will do the shilling can be calmly articular by experts but new users will absolutely abatement for this allurement and will accompany this bazaar and get scammed again. Our admonition will be to break abroad at all costs from the markets mentioned above.”
Besides darknetstats.com, on amusing media sites like Twitter and the Reddit appointment r/darknet, a cardinal of vendors and DNM barter are discussing the Apollon bearings fervently. One alone on the appointment r/darknet told DNM users not to accent over Apollon. “Ready to accord up on darknet markets? — Don’t — One bad Apollon doesn’t blemish the accomplished bunch,” he wrote.
** After this column was published, the buyer of the Twitter annual Dark.fail has explained that Darknetstats.com is “well accepted for appearance screenshots, overextension lies, and FUD.” Dark.fail has said Darknetstats.com’s commodity is an declared “paid column to addition Darknetstats’ chase rankings.” “PGP never verifies in his apish pics — Competing markets pay DNS to advance FUD,” the Twitter annual stressed. Other DNM users disagree with these statements and accept the Dread appointment is connected with the contempo DNM problems. This commodity has been adapted to reflect Dark.fail’s contempo statements adjoin the commodity accounting by Darknetstats.com. And contempo statements from a few r/darknet accounts on Monday, February 3, 2020.
Who do you anticipate could be amenable for the darknet’s DDoS attacks? What do you anticipate about the declared Apollon bazaar avenue scam? Let us apperceive in the comments area below.
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