Security News > 2021 > August > Notorious AlphaBay darknet market comes back to life

The AlphaBay darkweb market has come back to life after an administrator of the original project relaunched it over the weekend.

AlphaBay started in 2014 and it became the largest darknet market.

At the end of last week, DeSnake announced on a dark web forum that the AlphaBay market reopened and was ready for business.

Tom Robinson, co-founder of blockchain analysis company Elliptic, found DeSnake's messages to the darknet market community, where they introduced themselves as the "Security administrator and co-founder of AlphaBay."

One darknet user confirmed DeSnake's key and that they were part of the original AlphaBay tech staff.

From their description, it looks like an Amazon of darknet markets that allows vendors and buyers to roam from one market to another using one account and without having to trust any of them with their cryptocurrency.

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