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Last updated: Fri, 02 May 2025 23:07

“Gateway to the Darknet” or a place to discuss anything related to hidden services and marketplaces.

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29.12.2019 former moderator of the now-defunct Tochka Marketplace asked other former staff members to get in touch on Dread.
29.07.2019 yet another DDoS attack on the forum.
27.09.2019 More than a week after Dread went down for maintenance, HugBunter’s deadman switch was triggered.
26.11.2019 Dread is back online after an extended period of downtime, updates and new features have also been introduced.
26.02.2018 The first changelog has been announced. The number of forum users exceeded 2000. A report on the safety of the Wall Street market has also been added.
26.01.2020 Hagbanter posted at /r/DreadAlert that the forum will soon be back up and running after a massive DDoS attack.
24.09.2019 DDoS attacks are still ongoing, Dread is not functioning.
22.03.2018 The Dread is going down for technical work.
20.05.2019 Dread came back online after several extended periods of downtime caused by an ongoing DDoS attack. Dread came back with a whole bunch of new features and improvements. It relaunched with some new features too, such as night le dark mode.
20.05.2019 forums Darknet Avengers and Dread has been DoS attacked.
20.05.2018 Hugbunter's official announcement of the closure of /r/dnm (DNM doomsday). The publication contains the following information:
20.02.2020 in a post on /r/DreadAlert, HugBunter announced the creation of two new “permanent” mirrors.
17.11.2019 Dread suffered a crash that resulted in the loss of two weeks worth of data, including account changes, posts, comments, and even new account.
17.06.2019 forums Darknet Avengers and Dread has been DoS attacked.
17.04.2020 Dread migrates on onion V3 address
16.02.2020 Dread forum turns 2 years old. During this time 120 thousand users have registered on it and 100 thousand posts have been published.
15.02.2018 Hugbunter announces Dread forum on Reddit.
14.09.2019 On July 30, HugBunter posted the following message on the DreadAlert subreddit.
10.11.2019 To fight against scam vendors, on the Dread forum announced the creation of a “Darknet Collective”, where marketplaces that fall under certain conditions are invited.
09.05.2019 Due to a massive DDoS attack, Dread's onion addresses have been updated.
05.10.2019 HugBunter is offering a $1,000 reward for a copy of some or all of the data from Cannabis Growers & Merchants Cooperative. As will become known afterward, this data was necessary for them to be added to the future Recon platform.
04.09.2018 Hugbunter confirmed the Olympus Market exit-scam. According to the Ori forum administrator, the management stopped contacting and shut down all mirrors.
04.06.2019 Gangsta Paradise forum, which gained its notoriety for spam and FUD, has been defaced by Hugbunter. According to various rumors, fentanyl was allowed to be sold on this platform and CP was distributed.
01.10.2019 forum is back up and running, a new way to fight spam has been announced. A new captcha has been introduced.
01.05.2025 A message from user enzyme about the arrest of seller Pygmalion appeared on the forum..
01.01.2018 Hugbunter has stated that they are going to make Dread as an open source project and also include 2FA PGP.
01.01.2018 Published roadmap of project. Hugbunter promises to improve search functionality, search algorithms, introduction of an auto-moderator function, removal of minor bugs, and user and post design.
01.01.2018 Hugbunter said he intends to develop a search service similar to Grams to easily find vendors.
01.01.2018 In response to a request from a DarkDotFail admin, Hugbunter says it will publish the Dread code to the public after “cleaning the code up”.
01.01.2018 The Dread admin is considering running a clearnet squid proxy in order to expand the number of people visiting the forum.
01.01.2018 The address http://dreadecomdopooda.onion has been published, where there are details for donations in favor of the forum.
01.01.2018 Hugbunter replied in a post about the Mamba Market announcement.
01.01.2018 Hugbunter replied in one of the threads that he is in the process of drafting rules for creating and moderating subdreads.
01.01.2018 Users have noted a problem with fake vendors creating subdreads and topics on Dread, because of this, the creation of subsections was restricted by the administrator.
01.01.2018 Hugbunter gave his opinion on the discussion of fentanyl sales: "Fentanyl sales should not really be discussed at all since it promotes it. I want some subs to act as a resource for harm reduction as that is something I would really like to promote and believe in, fentanyl obviously can be used responsibly, but it can also have devastating effects".
01.01.2018 there is a clause in the development plans to allow private subdreads.
01.01.2018 first complaints about delayed responses to community creation requests.
01.01.2018 A publication with a detailed analysis of Dread by user /u/pirate. From Hugbunter's response it appears that:
01.01.2018 1) He is the sole developer of the project.
01.01.2018 like design was originally intended to be this way and was not planned to be changed.
01.01.2018 3) Published links to marketplaces on the forum were verified with PGP already at that time.
01.01.2018 4) Trophies were planned to be introduced on the forum already at that point in time.
01.01.2018 5) There was also a comment that marketplaces added on Dread would meet certain criteria.
01.01.2018 6) An alternative to Grams was already under development.
01.01.2018 a superlist of all marketplaces has been announced.
01.01.2018 already in 2018, spam problems started on /d/counterfeit_money, from which spam protection was strengthened.
01.01.2018 a request for a profile description on Dread from users has been rejected by Hugbunter.
01.01.2018 user /u/DutchNationalPolice posted about the arrested sellers from Dream Market: Smurfs Mr.Bubblebgum, Olaf, Rubiks, DRUGSGAMES
01.01.2018 a fake report about the Libertas Market arrest has been published.
01.01.2018 following the closure of the /r/darknetmarkets subreddit in April/May 2018, users are moving en masse to the Dread forum.
01.01.2018 1) Administrator releases security reports on marketplaces (for example Wall Street Market, it was written above).
01.01.2018 2) Hugbunter is “a pen tester who has worked on the exploitation on some of the biggest markets and helped them to secure their systems. He has also hacked and successfully taken down multiple unestablished markets, due to their complete incompetence, which was putting users at risk, whilst also ensuring there was little to no money lost wherever possible.”
01.01.2018 3) Dread's moderator expansion and new updates were announced due to the large influx of users.
01.01.2018 Appolon Marketplace is opening up community on Dread.
01.01.2018 "We've been down for around 10 hours now, I'd like to apologize for not being on top of the attack this timehowever I have been tending to a few things. [...] As a reminder, Nightmare seems to be currently exitscamming, essentially stealing all coin depositedonto the market. All vendors are locked out of their accounts, so please avoid Nightmare at all costs".