Notice: Darkweb Forum "Envoy" is Down for Maintenance

The co-administrator of the darkweb forum “Envoy” shut the site down to conduct a security audit after his partner and co-administrator seemingly disappeared under suspicious circumstances.

F0rtuna, the admin of Envoy, warned users on Dread that he had lost contact with his co-administrator and suspected that law enforcement had a role in the person’s disappearance. At this point in time—between three and four days since last contact—no evidence exists to support the theory involving law enforcement. However, those who spoke with the co-admin, a former moderator of Dread known as Witchman05, agreed that such an unplanned absence was highly suspect. Additional evidence indicates that others connected to both F0rtuna and Witchman05 have disappeared in a similar fashion.

Witchman05 recently revealed that he had been working on a new darkweb marketplace. F0rtuna suggested that Witchman05’s activities involving the upcoming market had attracted the attention of law enforcement.

F0rtuna is concerned that law enforcement could have used Witchman05’s elevated access to Envoy to further an investigation into users of the forum. He pulled the forum offline to review the code and burn the server that Witchman05 had the ability to access.

This post serves as an announcement of Envoy downtime rather than a post about any law enforcement operation. A future article will cover the actual events that led F0rtuna to the conclusion that law enforcement had apprehended his partner and that certain users are no longer in control of certain user accounts.

Below is F0rtuna’s message on Envoy:

Envoy forum is making mitigration on new server and checking files and hardering script as “admin” witchman05 is possibly busted please visit our subdread /d/Envoy for more details if you don’t know what is dread take link from www.dark.fail. Server information was always under mine control and witchman didn’t have access to it but i am taking OPSec measures check this message and my pgp key at envoys5appps3bin.onion/pgp.txt You can check this Message signed with my pgp at envoys5appps3bin.onion/signed.txt F0rtuna Techmin of Envoy.