A sprawling stolen ID marketplace selling some 80 million credentials and popular with cybercriminals has been shut down by a multinational police operation that arrested 120 people, among them 10 Australians.
“Operation Cookie Monster” spanned 17 countries, conducted more than 200 searches and culminated with police defacing the Genesis Market website, plastering the logos of European, Canadian and Australian police forces, and that of cybersecurity firm Qintel, across the page.Credit:Britain’s National Crime Agency said it was “one of the most significant access marketplaces anywhere in the world”.
At the time of takedown, the site offered access to more than 1.5 million compromised computers – each containing security credentials for dozens of accounts. Lee said the site had the potential to cause $46 million in harm to the Australian community through the sale of stolen Australian credentials and access to compromised Australian devices.
Other countries involved in the investigation included Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.
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