DarkForums Takes on the Mantle of Disrupted BreachForums

Dark Forums has seen a number of leadership changes.

The disruption of cybercrime marketplace BreachForums saw the user base of Dark Forums increase by 600 percent in Q2.

According to SiliconANGLE, DarkForums - which first emerged as DARK4RMY Forums associated with the Indian hacking operation DarkArmy nearly three years ago - was initially led by the threat actor "Lucifer", who passed on the site's control to "Knox" after retiring in August, a report from KELA Research and Strategy revealed.

Another early DarkForums admin believed to have been established to bolster the site's credibility, named "AnonOne", was observed to have conducted cross-postings on BreachForums and HydraMarket.

Other earlier admins "MrR0b0t" and "MrNoiz" were noted to have used several public platforms and changed their digital identity, respectively.

Despite DarkForums' rapid ascent, KELA researchers noted the site's admins to be markedly less advanced than those of BreachForums, who had been arrested last month.

Cyber Crime Published: 24 July