SamSara Market, the official yet unofficial successor to Dream Market, has been down for several days without any explanation from the market’s administration. The administrator of the market has been keeping the staff in the dark as well, according to a recent post by one of the market’s most senior staff members.
A number of darknet marketplaces are joining forces to prevent scammers “from hopping between markets” after getting caught scamming. The project is open for other qualified markets willing to cooperate by blacklisting scammers and voting on scam reports.
Italian law enforcement announced the shutdown of Berlusconi Market and arrest of three individuals suspected of running the marketplace. The investigation into the market started in May and investigation into vendors on the marketplace is ongoing.
Cybercrime researchers discovered a so-called “trojanized version” of the Tor Browser responsible for stealing $40,000 from users of Russian darknet markets. The infected version of the browser is being distributed through darkweb forums via posts about darknet markets, crytpocurrency, and bypassing censorship.
HugBunter is offering a $1,000 reward for a copy of some or all of the data from Cannabis Growers & Merchants Cooperative, a market that unexpectedly exited earlier this year. The CGMC data will be used to complete Recon, a darkweb search engine with information from almost every major darkweb marketplace.
A Berlusconi Market moderator revealed that Berlusconi administrators had disappeared nearly two weeks ago, leaving the rest of the staff without access to the server or the administrative functions needed to fix a bug preventing users from actually logging into the market.
White House Market, one of the new markets focused on privacy and the security of buyers and sellers, rolled out an update allowing vendors to apply for FE permissions, among other things. White House is one of many markets to roll out an update in early October 2019.
CannaHome is a market for cannabis and shrooms only. We strongly support the rights of adults to decide for themselves if they want to use these low-risk substances, whether for medical needs or recreation.
