Darknet marketplace Solaris was hijacked by a small competitor, Kraken, on January 13, 2023. The Solaris darknet site was redirected to Kraken, and the associated blockchain address did not move. Solaris appeared after the server of Hydra Market, the largest dark web market, was seized and shut down by German police in April last year. It aimed to attract some Hydra users. $150 million. Kraken is smaller than Solaris. Solaris is believed to be linked to the pro-Kremlin hacking group Killnet. In December 2022, Ukrainian cyber intelligence analyst Alex Holden claimed to have hacked into Solaris and stole $25,000 to donate to humanitarian charities in Ukraine. Solaris denied that the site had been compromised, but Holden later released more evidence, including stolen source code and databases. On January 13, Kraken announced that it controlled the Solaris infrastructure, GitLab repository, and all project source code, “thanks to a major bug in the source code.” Kraken said it took three days to steal plaintext passwords and keys from the Solaris server, The infrastructure located in Finland was accessed and all content was downloaded. It then shut down the Bitcoin server on Solaris. Kraken is also pro-Kremlin, and this incident should have nothing to do with politics, but with commercial motives.
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