Q. Terms, ‘Hydra’, ‘AlphaBay’, ‘RAMP’, pertain to which of the following? Answer:
Dark web
Notes:
Hydra was a Russian language dark web marketplace that facilitated trafficking of illegal drugs as well as financial services including cryptocurrency tumbling for money laundering and exchange services between cryptocurrency and Russian rubles, also sale of documents.
AlphaBay is a darknet market operating both as an onion service on the Tor network and as an I2P node on I2P.
Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market. As part of the dark web, it was operated as a Tor hidden service, such that online users were able to browse it anonymously and securely without potential traffic monitoring.
The Russian Anonymous Marketplace or RAMP was a Russian language forum with users selling a variety of drugs on the Dark Web. With over 14,000 members, the site uses Tor and uses some escrow features like Silk Road-like darknet markets, but otherwise many deals take place off-site using off-the-record messaging.