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The first Hidden Wiki was operated through the .onion pseudo-top-level domain which can be accessed only by using Tor or a Tor gateway. [1] Its main page provided a community-maintained link directory to other hidden services, including links claiming to offer money laundering, contract killing, cyber-attacks for hire, contraband chemicals, and bomb making.
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire.Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets.
This is a categorized list of notable onion services (formerly, hidden services) [1] accessible through the Tor anonymity network. Defunct services and those accessed by deprecated V2 addresses are marked.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 December 2024. Online discussion forum hosted on the dark web Dread Type of site Dark web forum Available in English Owner HugBunter and Paris Created by HugBunter Registration Optional Launched 2018 ; 6 years ago (2018) Current status Active (.onion only) Dread is a Reddit -like dark web discussion ...
The Spanish Prisoner scam—and its modern variant, the advance-fee scam or "Nigerian letter scam"—involves enlisting the mark to aid in retrieving some stolen money from its hiding place. The victim sometimes believes they can cheat the con artists out of their money, but anyone trying this has already fallen for the essential con by ...
In July 2017, Roger Dingledine, one of the three founders of the Tor Project, said that Facebook is the biggest hidden service. The dark web comprises only 3% of the traffic in the Tor network. The dark web comprises only 3% of the traffic in the Tor network.
In 2011, Anonymous launched Operation Darknet, an anti-child pornography effort against activities on the dark web.One of the largest sites, Lolita City, hosted by Freedom Hosting, [3] was subject to a denial-of-service attack (DDoS), and later had its member list leaked following an SQL injection attack, as was The Hidden Wiki which linked to it.
In October 2014, Facebook announced [7] that users could connect to the website through a Tor onion service using the privacy-protecting Tor browser and encrypted using HTTPS.