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DarkForums
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November 2022
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DarkForums launched in November 2022.
A spiritual successor to the RaidForums/BreachForums lineage, DarkForums has grown to become the top destination for selling and sharing stolen databases, at least in the English-speaking cybercrime sphere. Originally launched in 2022 as a spin-off of Indian hacking forum D4RK4RMY, DarkForums gained more and more users as the continuous seizures of BreachForums iterations took their toll on the brand’s perceived reliability.
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