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Genesis Market: Huge dark web platform smashed
7 April 2023
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Genesis Market: Next giant dark web platform smashed

"Operation Cookie Monster" smashes Genesis Market: The world's largest platform of its kind offered special services, such as stolen access data to various e-commerce and online payment services, access to bank accounts or social networks of all kinds. The international action was made much more European by the FBI, Europol and German police carried out. According to the FBI, the dark web platform Genesis Market offered access to data that had been stolen from more than 1,5 million compromised computers worldwide and was therefore also a key factor in ransomware. The US Department of Justice reported on the international operation against Genesis Market, a criminal online marketplace that sells packets of account credentials -...

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Hive: After the smashing, the victims hope
27. February 2023
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Hive: After the smashing, the victims hope

The end of the ransomware group HIVE was also the start of new investigation methods: Infiltration by hacker gangs means that ransom payments are no longer without alternative. The air is getting thinner for APT gangs. A few weeks ago, German and US authorities (Baden-Württemberg police, FBI and Secret Service) in cooperation with other European security authorities smashed the "Hive" hacker network after a joint investigation. A comment by Lothar Geuenich, VP Central Europe / DACH at Check Point. HIVE: Perpetrators fear, victims hope This is a victory that should be celebrated. Because apparently the group had already been affected by ransomware attacks...

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Gangster VPN network VPNLab.net shut down by law enforcement
20 January 2022
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Anyone who calls up the VPNLab.net page only gets a “This domain has been seized” – This page has been confiscated. Various ransomware attacks were routed and malware distributed via the VPN network, such as Ryuk. The special VPN network with two cascaded servers run by over 12 international law enforcement agencies in Operation Cyborg. On Monday, January 17.01.2022th, XNUMX, the investigators from the Hanover police department and the Verden public prosecutor's office managed to take several servers of VPNLab.net, from which cybercriminal groups operate, offline (so-called "takedown"). Various law enforcement agencies around the world were involved in the large-scale operation...

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German companies are calling for police protection against cybercrime
2 December 2021
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German companies are calling for police protection against cybercrime

Digital assets: Corporate decision-makers in Germany lack legal security and police protection in the event of cyber attacks. Kaspersky survey shows: 64,4 percent of decision-makers demand the same police protection for cybercrime as for other crimes. Companies are obliged to protect their data, which is why decision-makers in Germany are calling for more support and police protection against cybercrime. According to a Kaspersky poll, 66,4 percent of corporate decision-makers believe that companies do not receive the same level of police protection or support when it comes to cybersecurity incidents as they do with real-world crimes. Police protection like regulating crimes in the real world ...

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