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fromSecurityWeek
2 days ago

Resurrected 'Crimenetwork' Marketplace Taken Down, Administrator Arrested

The German police last week announced the shutdown of the second iteration of the Crimenetwork crime marketplace. Crimenetwork was taken down in December 2024, after more than 12 years of operation, and a suspected administrator was arrested. Days later, the German-speaking online marketplace was resurrected on newly built infrastructure, and has since grown to have over 22,000 users and more than 100 sellers. The majority of the marketplace's users are likely German speakers, the police said.
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fromThe Hacker News
2 months ago

Europol-Led Operation Takes Down Tycoon 2FA Phishing-as-a-Service Linked to 64,000 Attacks

Law enforcement and security companies dismantled Tycoon 2FA, a major phishing-as-a-service toolkit that facilitated credential harvesting attacks affecting nearly 100,000 organizations globally.
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fromTheregister
3 months ago

Ransomware crims forced to take off-RAMP as FBI seizes forum

US law enforcement seized the RAMP cybercrime forum's domains, disrupting a major marketplace used by ransomware groups, extortionists, and initial access brokers.
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fromTheregister
4 months ago

US shutters phisherfolk's $14.6M password-hoarding platform

Law enforcement shut down web3adspanels.org, a platform used to store stolen banking credentials from SEO-poisoning campaigns that enabled account takeovers and millions in losses.
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fromIT Pro
6 months ago

Europol takes down SIM farm network that scammed thousands of victims

A Latvian cybercrime-as-a-service ring built SIM-based infrastructure, created nearly 50 million fake accounts, enabled widespread European fraud, leading to seven arrests.
fromTheregister
7 months ago

Cops seize Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' BreachForums domain

US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office. The site, breachforums[.]hn, had become a public-facing leak shop for the group's latest extortion campaign, which targeted Salesforce and its corporate clientele. Visitors to both the clearnet and onion versions of the site were greeted today by an animated seizure notice courtesy of the US Department of Justice and the FBI,
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