International police have shut down Genesis Market what they called “one of the most dangerous marketplaces ” selling stolen account credentials to hackers worldwide, Europol and U.S. officials said on April 5.
International police have busted the most dangerous market, which used to steal people’s data and sell it to hackers all over the world. The law enforcement agency, which carried out the operation involving 17 countries, on Tuesday shut down Genesis Markets and seized its infrastructure.
The international sweep was led by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Dutch National Police (Polity), with a command post set up at Europol’s headquarters on the day of the operation to coordinate the various enforcement measures being taken around the world. it was done. The worldwide crackdown against the hackers resulted in the arrest of 119 people, according to the statement. Apart from this, 208 properties were searched and 97 knock and talk measures, the agency said.
According to Europol’s statement, Genesis Markets was believed to be one of the largest criminal facilitators, with more than 1.5 million bot listings totaling more than 2 million identities at the time of its removal.
Genesis exclusively deals in selling digital products, specifically browser fingerprints extracted from computers infected with malware software. These fingerprints often include cookies, Internet Protocol addresses, credentials and other browser or operating system details and are used by cybercriminals to bypass anti-fraud solutions.
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