Authorities say he amassed about $23 million, thanks to his market charging a commission of 2% to 4% on every transaction.īut as part of "Operation Bayonet," spearheaded by the FBI and the EU's law enforcement agency, Europol, authorities in mid-2017 took down the site, Thai police arrested Cazes, who was later found dead in his jail cell. For a time, AlphaBay was the most popular darknet market in the world, and Cazes was rich. The first iteration of AlphaBay ended poorly for its founder, Canadian citizen Alexandre Cazes, who launched the site in December 2014 and ran it from Thailand. Many get infiltrated by police, so they can identify not just administrators and moderators, but also top buyers and sellers. Unsurprisingly, such markets remain top targets for takedowns by law enforcement officials. Many darknet markets portray themselves as havens for nearly any illegal goods or services one might want to buy or sell: guns, drugs, malware, fake passports and sometimes even contract killings. AlphaBay's return announced in a post to Ghostbin See Also: Now OnDemand | C-Suite Round-up: Connecting the Dots Between OT and IdentityĪ new market site bearing that name is now accessible via the anonymizing Tor browser as well as via I2P - an anonymous, peer-to-peer distributed communication layer.īut if you build another darknet market, will buyers and sellers trust it enough to use it? That's just one of many questions accompanying the debut of the new AlphaBay. The notorious AlphaBay darknet marketplace appears to be getting rebooted. The new AlphaBay darknet market's homepage (Source: Elliptic)
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