Dark0de

[6] In early 2013, dark0de suffered from a large DDoS attack moving from bulletproof hosting provider Santrex to off-shore, the latter being a participant of the Stophaus campaign against Spamhaus.

[9] The forum was the target of Operation Shrouded Horizon, an international law enforcement effort led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which culminated in the site's seizure and arrests of several of its members in July 2015.

[10][11] According to the FBI, the case is "believed to be the largest-ever coordinated law enforcement effort directed at an online cyber criminal forum".

[13][14] On Monday, September 21, 2015, Daniel Placek appeared on the podcast Radiolab discussing his role in starting Darkode and his eventual cooperation with the United States government in its efforts to take down the site.

[17] Only two weeks after the announcement of the raid, the site reappeared with increased security, employing blockchain-based authentication and operating on the Tor anonymity network.