TheRealDeal: Difference between revisions

| url = <nowiki>{{Onion defunct|trdealmgn4uvm42g.onion</nowiki>}}<ref>{{cite web|title=TheRealDeal Market|url=https://www.deepdotweb.com/marketplace-directory/listing/therealdeal-market/|accessdate=30 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530004024/https://www.deepdotweb.com/marketplace-directory/listing/therealdeal-market/|archive-date=30 May 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref>

| type = Online[[Darknet market]]

| current_status = OnlineOffline

'''TheRealDeal''' iswas a [[dark web|darknet]] website and a part of the [[cyber-arms industry]] reported to be selling code and [[Zero-day (computing)|zero-day]] [[Exploit (computer security)|software exploits]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=[[DeepDotWeb]]|author-link=DeepDotWeb|title=Not Only Drugs: New Market Focuses On Code, 0Days & Exploits|url=http://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/04/08/therealdeal-dark-net-market-for-code-0days-exploits/|accessdate=15 May 2015|date=8 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518093751/http://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/04/08/therealdeal-dark-net-market-for-code-0days-exploits/|archive-date=18 May 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The creators claimed in an interview with [[DeepDotWeb]] that the site was founded in direct response to the number of dark websites which have emerged during the past few years which do not actually have anything of value to sell and are just scams.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Winder|first1=Davey|title=Is this new zero-day dark market the real deal?|url=http://www.itpro.co.uk/security/24478/is-this-new-zero-day-dark-market-the-real-deal|accessdate=17 May 2015|date=21 Apr 2015}}</ref> The site relied on [[Tor (anonymity network)|Tor]] and [[bitcoin]] similar to other [[darknet market]]s but requiresrequired [[Multisignature|multi-signature]] transactions. There was speculation in the [[computer security]] community as to whether the site is a law enforcement [[sting operation]] due to apparent listing of exploits at many times below their potential market value.<ref>{{CitationCite neededweb |title=Is this new zero-day dark market the real deal? |url=https://www.itpro.co.uk/security/24478/is-this-new-zero-day-dark-market-the-real-deal |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=IT PRO |date=21 April 2015 |language=en}}</ref><section end=allbody />

In July 2015 the website was down for 24 hours at the same time as cyber crime forum [[Darkode]] was seized by the FBI and various members arrested in '[[Operation Shrouded Horizon]]'.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Cox|first1=Joseph|title=The Mysterious Disappearance, and Reappearance, of a Dark Web Hacker Market|url=http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-mysterious-disappearance-and-reappearance-of-a-dark-web-hacker-market|accessdate=31 July 2015|date=29 July 2015}}</ref> On 13 August in 2015 the site went offline for unknown reasons.<ref>{{cite web|title=Dead Markets|url=https://www.deepdotweb.com/marketplace-directory/categories/dead-scam|accessdate=13 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150812105034/https://www.deepdotweb.com/marketplace-directory/categories/dead-scam|archive-date=12 August 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=DarkNet Stats|url=https://dnstats.net/market/TheRealDeal|accessdate=13 September 2015|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208074857/https://dnstats.net/market/TheRealDeal|url-status=dead}}</ref> On December 1 it announced its reopening on [[DeepDotWeb]].<ref>{{cite news|title=TheRealDeal: This Long-Dead Market Was Just Relaunched!|url=https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/12/01/therealdeal-this-dead-market-was-just-relaunched/|accessdate=3 December 2015|publisher=[[DeepDotWeb]]|date=1 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208163642/https://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/12/01/therealdeal-this-dead-market-was-just-relaunched/|archive-date=8 December 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Real Deal was shut down in November 2016.<ref>http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2017/08/cybercrime-finds-a-way-despite-dark-web-shutdowns/ [https://archive.today/20170901031647/http://www.itnewsafrica.com/2017/08/cybercrime-finds-a-way-despite-dark-web-shutdowns/ archive]</ref>

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