The FBI cracked down on “Genesis Marketplace,” an infamous cybercrime hub that
sold stolen data to perpetrators worldwide.
sold stolen data to perpetrators worldwide.
Yesterday, several domains linked to the underworld marketplace went down;
accessing them would prompt an FBI seizure notice to visitors instead of their
regular homepages. The intervention, dubbed “Operation Cookie Monster,” was the
work of law enforcement agencies from Australia, the US, the UK, Canada,
Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.
The notice furt