But the interesting appear of the takedown was that the federal regime shut downwards AlphaBay, but took command of the Hansa marketplace position in addition to kept it running for at to the lowest degree a calendar month inwards an assay to monitor the activities of its visitors.
The visitors of Hansa marketplace position also included a massive overflowing of Alphabay refugees, equally the seizer of AlphaBay Market forced their visitors to bring together the Hansa marketplace position for illegal trading in addition to purchasing.
However, non but Hansa, later on AlphaBay's shutdown, many of its users also joined or then other website known equally Dream Market, which is believed to hold upwards the second-largest nighttime spider web marketplace, ahead of Hansa.
After the shutdown of both AlphaBay in addition to Hansa, Dream Market has emerged equally the leading player, but at nowadays or then Reddit users on several "r/Dream_Market" threads cause got expressed concerns near the Dream Market, which has been inwards line concern since 2013.
One Reddit user said that Dream Market has been compromised inwards a like vogue equally Hansa in addition to is already nether police describe control.
"I got contacted yesteryear an ex-Hansa staff fellow member telling me that the performance is manifestly bigger than nosotros currently assume, that 'there volition hold upwards a bloodbath, a purge' in addition to that 'any vendor on HANSA should at nowadays seize his operation, lawyer upwards in addition to cover his trails'," the Reddit user post read.
Possibly the Real IP of Dream Market "Mistakenly" Exposed
"We constitute a clear address IP on the javascript source code of the market. The police describe must know it from a long time. GO AWAY FROM HERE RIGHT NOW !!!," the Redditor wrote along amongst a slice of Site's Source Code.
After exploring a bit, I constitute that the clearnet IP address 194.9.94.82 mentioned inwards the JavaScript file (lchudifyeqm4ldjj.onion/market.js) is owned yesteryear "Loopia AB," a Swedish hosting company.
This JavaScript file has non been added or altered recently, equally according to or then moderators, the file has been at that topographic point from at to the lowest degree yesteryear nine months, in addition to the code itself doesn’t betoken whatever signs of hijack or interception.
However, here's the large blunder — Exposure of the possible existent IP address of the server, which is supposed to hold upwards hidden behind the Tor Onion Router, is 1 of the biggest mistakes Dream Market operators mightiness cause got made that could cause got already given an chance to law enforcement agencies to raid the hosting fellowship in addition to accept command of the servers.
While the claims that Dream Market is nether police describe command are yet to hold upwards verified, vendors who joined Dream Market may yet hold upwards compromised yesteryear law enforcement.
Meanwhile, or then anonymous users on Reddit are also encouraging nighttime spider web users to view Dream Market, proverb "CALM DOWN! DREAM IS WORKING FINE!"
Benefitted from the shutdown of its rivals, Dream Market had 57,000 listings for drugs in addition to 4,000 listings for opioids on Thursday.
