Agora Dark Web market discovers suspicious activity on servers, pauses operations
Agora, the largest online black market on the Dark Web, is temporarily shutting down in response to “vulnerabilities in the Tor Hidden Services protocol which could help to deanonymize server locations.”
MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute published research in July, showing how to launch successful de-anonymization attacks as well as how to prevent them. The research showed that resources to pull off such attacks are “much lower than expected.” Agora added, “In our case, we do believe we have interested parties who possess such resources.”
After “discovering suspicious activity around our servers which led us to believe that some of the attacks described in the research could be going on,” Agora has chosen to “pause operations.”
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