Police arrested 119 people in an international operation led by the FBI and Dutch police, and involving law enforcement in 17 countries, with 208 raids worldwide.
Dubbed “Operation Cookie Monster”, the swoop targeted Genesis Market, which sold hackers the identities of over two million people for as little as US$0.70, they said.
The “unprecedented law enforcement operation” had taken down “one of the most dangerous marketplaces selling stolen account credentials to hackers worldwide”, EU police agency Europol said. Europol said the site offered “bots” for sale that had infected victims’ devices through malware or other methods, attracting criminals through “accessibility and cheap prices”.
Unlike so-called “dark web” services, Genesis was available on the open web “although obscured from law enforcement behind an invitation-only veil”, the agency said.
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