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“We will say that there was a clear agenda behind the way this was originally handled,” wrote the site’s administrator, who went by the name William Gibson, “but we leave you to draw your own conclusions.”ĭeSnake, meanwhile, maintained both on Dread and to WIRED that he doesn’t have any personal or professional connection to threesixty, the hacker whose vulnerability discovery took down AlphaBay's largest remaining competitor. Versus responded by immediately announcing its retirement. All of that suggests AlphaBay may already be the most popular market for dark web vendors to list their wares for sale. Other markets touted in dark web forums like Archetyp and Incognito, meanwhile, have only a few thousand or just a few hundred listings. According to Flashpoint’s data, AlphaBay’s listings also appear to be growing significantly faster. And according to security firm Flashpoint, which closely tracks the competing markets, AlphaBay had more than 1,300 active vendors in roughly the first six months of this year, compared to about 1,000 for ASAP. But ASAP is known to allow vendors to post duplicate listings. Another older market called ASAP displays more than 50,000 listings.

That’s up from a mere 500 listings in September of last year. “As I have told you, I do what I say.”ĭeSnake’s boast is at least partly true: As of last week, AlphaBay had more than 30,000 unique product listings-largely drugs, from ecstasy to opioids to methamphetamines-but also thousands of listings for malware and stolen data, like Social Security numbers and credit card details. “I did tell you we were going to be #1 before,” he added, referring to our interview with AlphaBay’s new admin at the time of its relaunch last summer. “Yes, AlphaBay is the #1 darknet marketplace right now,” says DeSnake, writing to WIRED in a text-based conversation last week.

By some measures, it appears to have already regained that spot. Now, 10 months later, thanks in part to a tumult of takedowns and the mysterious disappearances of competing dark web markets, DeSnake’s reincarnated AlphaBay is now well on its way to its former heights atop the digital underworld. Yet in August of last year, AlphaBay’s number-two administrator and security specialist, publicly known only as DeSnake, suddenly reappeared, announcing AlphaBay’s resurrection in a new and improved form. In July of 2017, a global law enforcement sting known as Operation Bayonet took down AlphaBay’s sprawling narcotics-and-cybercrime bazaar, seizing the site’s central server in Lithuania and arresting its creator, Alexandre Cazes, outside his home in Bangkok. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

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