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RuTor
Active Since
October 2014
Dark web or clear web
Dark web and clear web
Predominant language
Russian
Known admins / moderators
Senior Berlin, Screaming Eagle, Darkless, Viktor Palych
RuTor has been a prominent forum in the Russian dark web scene since 2015, with threads that span multiple pages – and years – on topics ranging from drugs, fraud, computer programming and current affairs.
It is known for hosting region/city-specific “smoking rooms,” which acted as assembly points for dispossessed vendors and buyers following the takedown of drug market giant Hydra in April 2022.
Hydra’s demise, coupled with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, triggered a civil war of sorts in the Russian cybercrime community. RuTor suffered a hack at the hands of pseudo-hacktivist collective Killnet, before launching its own attack against rival forum WayAway.
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