DDoSer behind recent market downtime on Tor reaches out to market admins

According to multiple sources, the notorious DDoSer behind recent DDoS attacks launched on onion services reached out to a select number of market admins in the last 48 hours. The individual claims that all ddos attacks will be ceased for the next few days, and offered a ransom in exchange for continuous uptime.

Your correspondent has reached out to several market admins for comment, who all refused to go on the record for this matter. The offer is obvious a …

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