Genesis Market, website selling stolen credentials, seized by FBI

 A joint international law enforcement operation has finished Genesis Market, an illegal online marketplace specializing in selling stolen credentials associated with bank accounts, email and social media platforms.

 Genesis Market is known in the hacker community as an invitation-only dark web forum and has been in existence since March 2018 with users from all over the world. The site was selling illicit access to corporate networks as digital fingerprints, malware thieves and web vulnerability kits and First access agents, along with credentials such as usernames and passwords for email, bank accounts and social media. Since its inception, it has become a major hub for criminal activity, providing access to stolen data from more than 1.5 million computers worldwide and a total of more than 80 million personally identifiable information.

 Domains associated with the Genesis market are currently displaying an image informing visitors that the website was seized by the FBI based on a warrant issued by a Wisconsin court.

 The FBI calls this operation the Cookie Monster.

 The FBI’s Milwaukee Field Office led the complex international investigation involving 44 other FBI field offices, coordination of law enforcement agencies around the world, including Europol, and the private sector.

 The documents also show that the FBI obtained a forensic image of the server hosting Genesis’s #1 Backend IP address.

 According to FBI documents, this server contained “voluminous records” associated with the market’s operations, including “customers” usernames, passwords, email accounts, Jabber accounts, search histories, purchase histories and even BTC addresses.

 The Cookie Monster operation, which involved officials from 17 countries, resulted in 119 arrests and 208 property searches in 13 countries.

Writer: Ebubekir GÜLEN

Biblografi:

https://cybernews.com/security/genesis-market-seized-fbi/
https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/fbi-cracks-down-on-genesis-market-119.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/05/genesis-market-feds-sanctions.html
https://www.sozcu.com.tr/2023/ekonomi/calinan-kimlik-bilgileri-satilmisti-genesis-markete-yaptirim-geldi-7644730/amp/

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