AND WE ARE BACK. October 11 Dread Status Update.
By Terry Werner
October 11, 2026
After attackers exploited a vulnerability in the open source "gobalance" software to temporarily hijack both of its domains, the popular darket forum Dread is back and working, with a new domain. Their new onion URL is:
dreadohblesmagfagqup24vw7catlvmqhhce5itz7wxr4vffgemjzaad.onion
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Forum administrator Paris posted the following statment:
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What an eventful week. That is my polite way of saying FUCK this week. In it's entirety. What an absolute mess and shit show.
Things are still getting attacked hard. We needed to wait a bit for more of our new relays to get their guard flags. We got a good enough portion of them up, so we should be pretty stable on the ohbelsmagfagqup address now. A new premium address will be released in due time.
This all has just been very embarrassing for me. I don't think I could have ever really seen this gobalance bug unless I was actively looking for it. AI is good when it comes to this stuff and this is the wake up call to do some local tests now with it to verify we are not missing anything else. I really loved those addresses but it is what it is. Can't take back those keys to the kingdom.
We should keep both the toofat and land one under our control now. I've made some wartime modifications within how descriptors are being published to shoot the fucker if he dares try to push into those address's HSDIRs. It is still a race condition but he shouldn't win for a long time the moment we get address control. Which we currently have and intend to have until the sun expands swallowing the earth (a very fucking long time).
And while I don't want to spend our time and resources into it, we will not be taking this shit sitting down. If you are going to hit us down we have no option but to come for your throat.
We are not going anywhere. We are up and intend to stay up. Make sure to bookmark the new dread address! What do you think I should change the queue page to?
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Fellow admin Hugbunter posted this short statement as a follow up:
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Sorry for the delay with everything, its been none stop work the entire week setting up infrastructure, I've managed to take control of our old onions almost for the entirety of the week. Daunt is currently being hit with a botnet, that will be the next task. While little Vlad is spending funds and hoping we give up, we're enjoyably reconfiguring everything one at a time. Again, we have not attacked him either.
October 11th, 2026
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