DARKNET in 2025 - The Illusion of Security

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The darknet is a place that seems so far away, but is closer than you might think. In this topic, I will tell you what the darknet is, how to get into the darknet, and also who works in the darknet and told you about all the dangers that you can meet there.
Work in the darknet offered all the time is also a huge trap! Why you should not go to the darknet?


Enjoy reading!

Contents:
  • Chapter 1: What is the Darknet
  • Chapter 2: Entering the Darknet for Dummies
  • Chapter 3: What's Sold on the Darknet
  • Chapter 4: How the purchase happens
  • Chapter 5: The Biggest Playgrounds
  • Chapter 6: Delivery and Distribution
  • Chapter 7: How Arms Are Traded
  • Chapter 8: Who Shops on the Darknet
  • Chapter 9: How pedophiles are punished on the darknet. How they are scammed into farming.
  • Chapter 9: How do they catch buyers and sellers?
  • Chapter 10: Why Even the Experienced Burn Out
  • Chapter 11: History of 1 Mistake
  • Chapter 12: Darknet Fake or Reality
  • Chapter 13: The Aftermath of Hype

The Darknet is a place where there are no laws, no flags and no conscience, only supply and demand. Today I will tell you how they quietly trade in things that can ruin your life, how you can buy a gun, a hundred grams of a substance or a new identity in a couple of clicks. How millions of people dive into the dirtiest underground of the Internet every day. Welcome to the Darknet, let's begin!

Chapter 1. What is the Darknet?
The regular Internet that you use is the tip of the iceberg, 5% of everything that is on the network, as they say, although this is not true.

All the social networks, search engines, forums that you see in front of you are the top layer, and underneath it is a dark mass. Deep web is what is hidden from search engines, these are databases, archives and personal profiles, but the darknet is a basement in the basement, a network where the very existence of sites is hidden, where every request is encrypted, where you can be anyone or no one, the tools of which, as a rule, are used to enter - TOR, I2P, Freenet.

There are no familiar links here, like in the regular clearnet. Here, addresses are random sets of letters and numbers that end in .onion Welcome to where laws are meaningless, where anonymity is a weapon, where every click can cost you your freedom.

Chapter 2. How do ordinary people get there?
Do you want to get into the darknet? It's easy as pie. Download Tor, launch it, open a page with addresses, the so-called dark links, and voila - you use it.

It goes without saying that we will not give full instructions here, because it is simply prohibited.

In general, no passwords, no invitations, you just need to know where to look. It is important to understand that real markets, as a rule, are not advertised, they are passed from hand to hand, through chats and encrypted forums, which is why there are lists with dark links. If you make a mistake, you will run into a trap from the police or a fake site where you will quickly be cheated out of money, which, by the way, is the basis for the darknet.

Rules for beginners: Never use your personal e-mail. Always turn on VPN, do not trust anyone. No one at all. In the darknet, trust is a luxury for which you pay with freedom or, at best, money.

Chapter 3. What do they sell there?
The darknet is a shadow supermarket, where the goods are everything you can imagine. The main thing is to find. TOP products.
Weapons. These are pistols, machine guns, even grenades and explosives. A huge number of forums in onion offer services for the sale of weapons for every taste, but almost all of them are scam projects, so be careful. And it is generally not clear why you might need a weapon. Well, probably to shoot at clay pigeons at the dacha. Let it be so.
Second. Drugs. This is actually a darknet base. This product is the most common on the darknet.
Next. Documents are passports, driver's licenses, crusts, etc.
Database. These are bank accounts, credit numbers, customer databases.
Malicious software. Trojans, ransomware, exploits.
Killer services. This point is the funniest, because 999 out of 1000 are scams.
The next and most negative is the sale of video materials with the theme of the central processor. Sellers in this category should burn with the brightest flame.

Further in the topic there will be a story about how a pedophile forum was exposed, then they were found and punished. A very pleasant block of information. In general, the darknet is a place where the most reckless layers of society gather. And videos of executions or fetishes have already become the norm. Alas.

Chapter 4. How does the purchase happen?
The process of buying on the Darknet looks terribly ordinary.
You register on the site, sometimes just with a banal nickname, sometimes you need to get an invite. The so-called invitation from another user. Then choose the product you are interested in, since there is absolutely anything in the marketplaces, write to the seller via encrypted chat, transfer cryptocurrency via escrow, that is, a guarantor, receive the goods by mail or through a stash.
An interesting fact is that most large marketplaces have a feedback system, seller ratings, disputes and arbitration.

I think it is important to remind you that any purchases on the darknet are an unjustified risk, so think for yourself whether you need it or not. Most likely you don’t need it.

Chapter 5. The most famous sites in the history of the darknet.
The darknet had its giants, empires and its falls.

Silkroad, which existed from 2011 to 2013. It was created by Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonym Dredd Pirate Roberts. Drugs, weapons, documents. Everything was sold absolutely freely. Closed by the FBI in October 2013.

Ross spent his life in prison without parole until Trump's term, who actually pardoned him. It's not very clear why or for what reason. Probably because he's a libertarian. I don't know. Write a comment asking if guys like him should ever go out into the world. Personally, I don't think so.

Alpha Bay. 2014-2017. After Silk Road, it became Alpha Bay, even bigger and richer. Closed by an international operation, the site's director found dead in his cell after landing.

Hydra. 2015-2022. A Russian-language giant with a bookmark system and billion-dollar turnover, closed in Germany after a special operation.

Dream Market. Wall Street Market. Empire. These are small flashes against the backdrop of giants, but even they manage to grab their piece of the pie. It is quite common for a darknet marketplace to go into retirement in broad daylight without warning, and this whole action is accompanied by the so-called exit scam. An exit scam is the owner going underground and taking all the clients' money.
Since most sites have a crypto balance system, the admins will want to leave with all this stuff and slam the door.

But for users, it will end with a loss of finances, or a notice of store closure and subsequent threats of legal prosecution. There is no long life in the darknet, only short fame and a long shadow of the FBI behind your back. This is precisely the main reason why admins flee with their entire bank. There is not a single popular project that would function for a very long time. For the darknet, even one year is considered a long period.

Chapter 6. The main method of delivery from the darknet and distribution.
In Russia and the CIS, bookmarks have become the most popular. I think there is no need to explain how it works. If you want to order a product by mail, which is by the way not uncommon and really convenient, you receive a disguised parcel, a book, fruit, anything in which you can hide the product.

This is how drugs were distributed during the life of Silkroad. You simply order the item you are interested in and receive it delivered to your home within a few days. This way you can deliver almost anything. A rarer method is couriers from the same stores, because as a rule, there is illegality there and I personally would not want to see a courier from the darknet on my doorstep. I don’t know about you.

Chapter 7. How do they trade weapons?
As we mentioned earlier, weapons are one of the most hyped topics, but the chance that you will run into a scam is literally 100%.

But it is still worth analyzing the 0.001% of functioning shops. How do they trade? The main methods. They sell disassembled pistols, each part is sent separately. They offer decommissioned or restored weapons. Weapons often come from war zones. Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan. Selling goods without a serial number. Such weapons are usually stolen. Well, it is logical with the erased serial number.

No joke, you can even order an airplane through TOR. It's clear that it will be written off, but the very fact that it's possible personally delights me. But getting a working gun through the darknet is like drawing, I don't know, four aces in a row randomly from a deck. 99% of buyers will get dummies, setups or come under the control of special services, and most often the whole action ends at the moment of payment, and in addition there is an attempt to get even more money out of you.

Write in the comments how and when you got acquainted with the darknet.

Chapter 8. Who buys there?
Darknet clients are not only criminal authorities, typical real buyers. These are students in search of a cheap, quick buzz or just banal junkies. Office clerks who decided to diversify their lives, in brackets, with interesting videos and chats with the same crazy people.

Housewives who buy themselves in the yard without a prescription. Youngsters dreaming of easy and quick money. And banal adventure seekers on their own butt. What is the psychology of all this? Nothing will happen to me. I am smarter than everyone. I am careful. But do not forget, everyone who has ever been eaten thought exactly the same. Do not make a banal mistake.

Chapter 9. How pedophiles are punished in the darknet and how people are cheated on drugs.
As mentioned earlier in this video, the darknet is considered a global fake.

Everything on the darknet must be carefully analyzed, because 99 out of 100 of what you see there is a scam. And there are cases of scam, from which even warmth comes to the heart. After all, there was a forum on the topic of the central processor. It is clear that we will not give the name of this forum here, because analogues exist, alas, at the moment.

There people could connect, let's say, by interests and tell how to lure children into traps so that they would not tell about all the horrors that subsequently happened to them and all sorts of similar cruelty. After this forum was blocked by the FBI and the administration was imprisoned, the saying "a holy place is never empty" came into force. After that, a forum with a similar name was created, to which all these goblins immediately rushed and continued their communication. This forum began to sell manuals on the same topic and deliver them by mail.

Surprisingly, there were individuals who ordered this ticket for a bottle for their home. Let's say, they improved their skills, but their skills in developing the anus will improve. And the thing was this. The forum was created by the authorities, and everyone who was somehow involved in it began to close. Most of those who were involved in those events have not remained alive to this day. You know, because in places not so remote there are such goblins, although, believe me, goblins are still a compliment for them. They are not met with much cordiality, and certainly not with open arms.

The famous inmate Larry Lawton mentioned "If it becomes known that a molester is sitting with you, then you are obliged to kill him, or make sure that life does not seem raspberries ." In general, a fairy tale. But there are also people who suffered because of the darknet and they are sorry. In the darknet you can buy absolutely everything, and that is why supply and demand is the main rule of the market there.

Thus, people offer drugs of absolutely any spectrum, even those that cost from a hundred thousand to several million dollars for one ampoule, such as, for example, Zilgensman. This is a drug for gene and cell therapy. It is difficult to get them, they are not allowed in all countries, and people go to such extreme measures simply to survive. And they are cheated. How these stories end, no one knows. Loss of money, perhaps. But here these people can lose much more.

Chapter 9. How do they catch buyers and sellers?
How, despite encryption, do they catch those who violate? The most commonly used methods. Vulnerability in TOR web browsers. Analysis of crypto transactions through chain analysis. Surveillance of the receipt of parcels. And, of course, social engineering.

Stories of how people were caught. A guy in Germany bought LSD on Dream Market, which at that time was already under the authorities. Then it is a matter of technology, how the guy was caught.

Next. In the US, the FBI conducted a special operation, disguised as arms dealers on Alpha Bay. All arrests of large owners and admins are carried out strictly under the secrecy label, and the operations are accompanied by months of development, so even Ross Ulbricht, the owner and admin of the most hyped Darknet Marketplace, was punished. His mistake was that at the beginning of the formation of the site, when no one knew about it, he made a fatal and only mistake. He wrote an advertisement for his site on some forum on the white Internet from his own email. That's all, actually. One mistake that led to imprisonment. You can be anonymous, but not invisible.

Chapter 10. Why do even experienced people burn out?
A mistake in the darknet is a matter of time. The most common reasons for fiasco are the use of the same crypto wallet. Very smart guys work for the tax authorities and the FBI, for whom even mixers are sometimes not an obstacle. They have long learned to track and, let's say, conduct transactions from something illegal to the exchange in your name.

Reconnecting to TOR without VPN. I think we shouldn't stop here. Personal correspondence that reveals identity. If you thought that you found a friend on the darknet, then you are very much mistaken. There are no and cannot be friends on the darknet, because on the other side of the screen there can be both the local police officer Gennady and a fraudster who, having received enough information about you, will start blackmailing you.

Don't let people in power manipulate you. And the last and most important thing is stupid self-confidence - they won't catch me . This is precisely the main reason, because self-confidence leads to all the mistakes that I listed above. What is the reality? In this game, the only winner is the one who does not start playing at all, oddly enough.

Chapter 11. The story of one mistake.
A story that is connected with the darknet and will be very familiar to everyone who reads this topic. This is a real story about a guy named Andrey, who just moved to Europe and, it would seem, had his whole life ahead of him, and this was in 2023.

They wanted to relax and, accordingly, ordered some fun bags from a local marketplace. After the start of the vacation, he immediately felt ill, after which the guy died, literally instantly. And in fact, what happened? Instead of what he ordered, we will not name the substances here, he received fentanyl, which is hundreds of times more powerful than heroin. It is clear that absolutely no one would survive from this. The moral is quite simple. Even if you think that I will just order something insignificant, small for myself, it will somehow pass me by, everything will be fine, then no. The best thing that awaits you is losing money and a scam. The worst is prison, or death.

Chapter 12. Is the Darknet a Fake or Not?
As sad as it is to admit, but the majority of Tor is fake. A screen behind which cunning scammers hide who are trying to make money on the hype of the darknet. In addition to shadow forums, drug marketplaces and the like, there are also completely white sites.

Sites of politicians and even the FBI. You don’t have to be Ross Ulbricht to go and use Tor. Are you a gardener and want to learn some secrets? No problem, you will find a suitable site for yourself. Are you sane, well, or sane, and want to help animals, acting as a volunteer? This will happen too. The darknet is not necessarily about something super negative. Sometimes there is enough positivity there.

Chapter 13. How they hyped up the darknet topic and what did it lead to?
In 2017, videos were popular where bloggers ordered various goods from the darknet. These were various boxes, mister-parcels and all sorts of similar nonsense. I think it is not worth saying that all this was staged and no one actually ordered anything, but People, as they say, ate it up, and the topic began to gain momentum. It was 2015 and 2017 that became turning points in the popularity of this topic, the topic of the darknet, and such popularity clearly did not do any good.

What happens if you give a completely anonymous tool into the wrong hands, and the children and school audience, among whom these videos were popular, is exactly what they are. That's right, chaos and anarchy. If before 2017, Thor was something underground, let's say, where people below the baseboard hung out, not shining and not showing their real activities, then in 2023-2025, this is a place that is accompanied by memes kicking schoolchildren at the very fact of the possibility of ordering something illegal.

The same fate awaits Telegram, since there, too, similarly to Tor, there is a very large young audience that kills all seriousness. But be that as it may and no matter how it may seem at first glance, Tor is not a place for an ordinary person from the street, you can still order illegal drugs there and get into trouble, and so do not deceive yourself. Also, in such places, that is, the darknet, they very often offer work, and here you need to be especially tense, because no sane employer will sit in an onion.

This is in 10 out of 10, not 99 out of 100, exactly 10 out of 10 cases, this is some kind of illegality. And due to the fact that I said a second earlier that there are a lot of young people in the darknet, they are precisely the target for HR. Most often, the work that is offered in the darknet is related to substances, being a chicken, a drop, or making stashes.

Moreover, you will not get anything in this dark world, it will all end with your term, most likely.

Darknet promises freedom, but all it gives is dependence, paranoia and an early end. Remember, anonymity is an illusion, freedom is a trap. Money in the darknet smells of blood.

Friends, take care of yourself and, of course, do not forget to comment, it helps a lot in promoting the forum. Bye!
 
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