Silk Road 2.0 launches one month after FBI takes down original

[Lee J <lee () riskbasedsecurity com>]

http://www.scmagazine.com/silk-road-20-launches-one-month-after-fbi-takes-down-original/article/320024/

Silk Road 2.0 has launched on the Tor network about one month after the FBI
took down the original illicit online marketplace and indicted its alleged
operator, 29-year-old Ross Ulbricht – also known as Dread Pirate Roberts,
DPR, or Silk Road.

The newly launched Silk Road <http://www.scmagazine.com//search/silk+road/> is
essentially the same thing as its previous iteration, except there is a new
profile section with the option of enabling PGP two-step authentication for
accounts, according to a
post<http://allthingsvice.com/2013/11/07/remember-remember-silk-road-redux/>.
Currently, new users can only join pending an invitation from a current
member.

The updated black market was reportedly launched by several members of the
original version and, perhaps as a result, the Tor website's head
administrator has been named ‘Dread Pirate Roberts' – the moniker Ulbricht
took on when operating the initial Silk Road.

Ulbricht, who was arrested in San Francisco in early October, appeared
before a New York judge on Wednesday where his attorney will seek to prove
Ulbricht is not the creator of Silk Road.

A case was built against
Ulbricht<http://www.scmagazine.com/fbi-brings-down-silk-road-underground-market/article/314691/>
by
a special agent for the cyber crime squad within FBI's New York field
office.

The special agent, who worked cooperatively with agents from the Drug
Enforcement Agency (DEA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Homeland Security
Investigations, and other law enforcement, went undercover to access Silk
Road via Tor.

Tor is an anonymous network that directs traffic through thousands of
relays to make internet tracking nearly impossible. Users can access these
portions of the internet – known as Deep Web because they are not indexed
by traditional search engines – by downloading the Tor Browser Bundle,
which contains a modified version of Firefox.

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