Administrators of the most popular English speaking forum in TOR1 started a new project to combat Darknet criminals. The 2nd of March was the day they announced a brand new R. searching engine (something like Google) which allows users to look for illicit goods from several Darknet Markets at once. As a result, illicit information will be more difficult to locate for any cybercriminal.
A brief introduction for Darknet novices: The Darknet isn’t the same as the web. There’s no main page , like Google or Bing that lets you browse the entire darknet. To access any website, you must to know the exact link or address. There are forums available to assist you in your search on the dark net but in order to use them , you have to be aware they exist in the first place. That’s why there’s been efforts to develop an official search engine in order to facilitate the research of illegal activities. Of course, comparing Google to R. search engines is a huge simplification. With Google, we can search almost the whole Clearnet while with R. search we can investigate just darknet trading (DNM) with TOR, and not all of them.
It’s almost like Google
The idea of a Darknet Market (DNM) search engine to browse the various offers available from stores is not new. The only thing that is different are the people behind it. It’s a group consisting of moderators and administrators from “D. forum” The largest discussion forum in the English area of TOR which was established in February of 2018 as a response to the further blocking of Darknet related topics on Reddit. D. became one of the most important informational hubs on TOR. Therefore, whenever you want to find opinions on DNM and specific DNM vendors, innovative methods of fraud, or do not know where to purchase something, that forum is the first place for a lot of Darknet users visit. Also, it is a must for those who chase after tutorials about what to do to prevent fraud the latest services on DNM as well as the latest news on the Darknet or anything else related with it, whether it’s frauds and drugs, as well as any other illegal activities. In this forum, there are numerous sections, that are all about illegal act such as Fraud Carding, Fraud, Fraud Resources, Counterfeiting, Dark Markets, Fake ID Fake Money, LSD, Drug Manufacture, Malware, Hacking and so on.
Each big DNM and every type of drug and fraud has its own section. There are also sections for certain countries, currencies and the most popular TOR websites. Only pedophiliaand pro-terrorism, weapons, poisons and other related to them are not allowed. Other than that, it’s all-inclusive freedom of expression.
The founders of the D. Forum are already one of the most influential vendors in the English speaking part of TOR and are well-known. This is why the launch of R. search could offer the forum a new purpose. To underscore the relationship between the well-respected forum, R. search requires users to log in from D. Forum to sign up on R. search. This is required even in the event that you are an DNM vendor who wants to update your details within R. search. There is no given information whether the R. the search engine stores information about users searches and their preferences. We all know that Google uses search history to track internet users. What do you think if the D. team can create the same feature and then determine which users are most interested in which type of illegal stuff? There are many options for getting more information about Darknet users who prefer to stay anonymous.
The appearance is R. search
R. search looks very beautiful (in contrast against other Darknet websites) and is easy to use. It offers basic filters such as prices that are minimum and maximum as well as shipping countries, Darknet Markets. At the time of writing the article R. Search engine found 23,7 thousand vendors the number of listings was 61 thousand (that’s what we call offers on DNM) and 1,3 million reviews submitted by DNM users. At present, R. search contains just 6 active DNM and archive information about DNM that are already gone. It is crucial to know how new DNMs are added, and the person who decides. D. Forum team members want to create a database with only the most reliable DNM suppliers, free of fraud. Of course, it’s their own choice as to which DNM are reliable enough to be included in the database and which are not. Because of this the importance of the group’s position in the Darknet information network is becoming more and more significant.
One important aspect is that R. search has in its database archived data from shut DNMs. Marketplaces in the Darknet rise and fall, and sellers often need to relocate from one place to another. The world market link statistics of their vendors are not always available in the new place and buyers must rely on the words of vendors that they are reliable, trustworthy, etc. Because of R. search buyers are able to check the reputations of vendors from the previous DNMs. R. search has a very intriguing kind of search engine that you can find vendors by their PGP fingerprints or their public PGP Key2. Thanks to that, when somebody claims he is Mr. X and he had outstanding scores on DNM’s that are now dead, you can check whether Mr. X on these dead DNM had the identical PGP Key. PGP Key is the primary way for Darknet users to authenticate themselves.