On 5 October 2017, Wapack Analysts observed several prominent Tor-based hacker forums go permanently offline - at the same time. Despite the clearweb address being offline, one of the forum's Tor onion sites was still online, suggesting a potential infiltration of the server; as seen with past law enforcement activities. The forums went offline with out any announcement or reason given for the disappearance. Several Reddit users have re-circulated the onion sites and are now speculating about what happened. In a recent blog post by Gizmodo, they explain that the Tor network is statistically shrinking. Gizmodo, utilizing the Onionscan tool, scanned a list of over 30,000 onion domains and reported only 4,400 online. Wapack Analysts have not observed any new Tor-based hacking forums for more than a week, suggesting possibly, a move away from Tor and on to different channels of communication...READ MOREWapack Labs has cataloged and reported Tor network activity and trends in the past. An archive of related reporting can be found in the Red Sky Alliance portal.
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