A look at the official URL and mirrors of the Empire market indicates that the marketplace is currently down and ‘not working.’
Empire Market is the world’s biggest Dark Web marketplace that went offline after receiving a massive DDoS attack. Since 2019, it’s the first time that Darknet’s biggest market went down for such a long duration. It’s over 36 hours now that the marketplace is offline.
Tweeting about the incident, researcher Dark.fail (@Darkdotfail ) said that Empire Market had been down for about a day and a half. The downtime started on Sunday, August 23, 2020. Empire’s Reddit-inspired forum on the deep web called r/darknet was thronged by its 127,000 subscribers who started posting threads and memes about the incident.
Dark.fail tweeted on Friday that Empire was targeted with a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. In a DDoS attack, the server is bombarded with artificial traffic, which makes it difficult for the server to process web requests, and it ultimately goes down.
In one of his tweets on August 21, the researcher noted that:
“Empire Market remains under a large DDoS attack making it very slow to access.” “Monero functionality appears broken, Bitcoin is functioning according to multiple trusted s ..
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