FBI and police shut down major cybercrime forums and marketplaces.
The FBI and international law enforcement agencies have arrested over 100 people in a global crackdown on Genesis Market, an invitation-only cybercrime forum that facilitated large-scale identity theft. The forum offered data stolen from 1.5 million computers around the world containing login details for more than 80 million user accounts. The FBI seized the web domains of Genesis Market and dubbed the takedown as “Operation Cookie Monster.” The crime forum grew out of research that hackers did on anti-fraud technologies used by hundreds of banks and payment systems. This is the latest in a series of international law enforcement stings against cybercrime forums.