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Cops have brought down a dark-web souk that provided cyber criminals with convincing copies of trusted brands' websites for use in phishing campaigns.
The others are suspected of other functions, either through the alleged running of LabHost or through supposed affiliation with its alleged money-laundering processes. None of them can be named at this stage for legal reasons.
"It doesn't matter where you base your server infrastructure, where your admins are, where your domain names are, we will use all the tactics available to us to disrupt what you're doing." Richter told us LabHost, at its peak, offered phishing kits for about 170 organizations, 47 of which had a UK focus. These kits were available to paying subscribers who, according to Fortra, paid around $300 a month for platform access. Within five minutes of payment usingFortra believes LabHost offered different subscription packages.
"Instead of just using it passively, setting up the service and coming back in a couple of days to see what data your victims have put in and then selling it on, there was an active approach you could take," he explained. In working to take these sites down, authorities have collected logs that reveal around a million interactions with victims of sites created by LabHost.
We asked Richter about that outage in October and whether it was in any way linked to the authorities' efforts to ultimately bring it down. He said his team was aware of the incident “but that's not something that we're looking to have any claims as being responsible for.
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