Heavy activity was seen on XSS’s .onion domain with some suspicion that the admin account may be under law enforcement control.
Cybercrime forum XSS is back online one day after the site’s seizure.
According to Hackread, the forum was seized following the arrest of its suspected administrator in Ukraine. The main domain XSS.IS displays a notice from Ukrainian and French authorities and Europol, while its mirror and dark web or .onion domains did not show a seizure notice but returned a 504 Gateway Timeout error.
Hackread confirmed that as of July 24th, the forum’s .onion and mirror domains have reappeared, with heavy activity seen on XSS’s .onion domain.
A forum administrator has claimed the infrastructure is unaffected by the seizure, and a replacement is underway. However, some users suspect the admin account may be under law enforcement control and warn that the forum may now be a honeypot.
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Dan Raywood is a B2B journalist with 25 years of experience, including covering cybersecurity for the past 17 years. He has extensively covered topics from Advanced Persistent Threats and nation-state hackers to major data breaches and regulatory changes.
He has spoken at events including 44CON, Infosecurity Europe, RANT Forum, BSides Scotland, Steelcon and the National Cyber Security Show, and served as editor of SC Media UK, Infosecurity Magazine and IT Security Guru. He was also an analyst with 451 Research and a product marketing lead at Tenable.
