News report
Cybercrime forum Darkode returns with security, admins intact
The Register, July 28, 2015. Darkode resurgence: the forum's return roughly two weeks after Operation Shrouded Horizon, with an admin posting under the original 'Sp3cial1st' handle and plans for a Tor-based, invite-only relaunch.
- Source type
- News report
- Published
- July 28, 2015
- Research grade
- S1
- Used in entries
- 1
Bibliographic record
- Publisher
- The Register
- Published
- July 28, 2015
- Source type
- News report
- Research grade
- Source grade S1
- Language
- English
- Official record
- Not an official publication
- What it supports
- Darkode resurgence: the forum's return roughly two weeks after Operation Shrouded Horizon, with an admin posting under the original 'Sp3cial1st' handle and plans for a Tor-based, invite-only relaunch
- Dataset id
- src_theregister_darkode_returns_2015
Research notes
- By Darren Pauli.
- published_on taken from the page's schema.org datePublished (2015-07-28T07:27:08Z); the page was last modified 2018-02-20.
- The URL recorded here is the page's own rel=canonical, including the /security/ prefix and the trailing article id.
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Cited by
Later activity
1 citation
Cited for activity recorded after the takedown.
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Darkode forum relaunch (darkode.cc)Later outcome
Same operators, Darkode forum takedown