Law enforcement agencies shut down the famous cybercriminal forum Darkode

Law enforcement agencies in the US and the EU carried out a large-scale raid on the organizers of one of the most famous cybercriminal forums Darkode. According to the website of the famous organization Europol, they managed to make arrests of 28 people associated with Darkode, including the 27-year-old forum administrator, known as Mafi / Crim / Synthet! C. At the moment, instead of the starting page of the forum, the site posted the following notice.



Darkode is one of the top five most well-known and most visited cybercriminal forums, where malware, botnets and other types of cyber attacks are trafficked, including zero-day exploits. The forum, which was closed to prying eyes, also sold or resold information stolen by cybercriminals, including personal data of users and credit card information.

Europol's European Cybercrime Center (EC3), it was supported by the European Union. The takedown and arrests were set up by the FBI (Pittsburgh, USA) and the Europol's EC3 (The Hague, the Netherlands). Subjects of the Republic of Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Formerly, FBI down to the forum, along with the arrests, 37

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Fig. States whose special structures participated in an operation called Shrouded Horizon.

Part of the list of arrested persons is listed below. It can be seen that malware encoders are also represented there. One of them specialized in the development of malware for Android - Denroid, part-time being its operator. Another suspect used the Facebook social network to distribute his malware.



Darkode has already fallen under the lenses of security researchers many times, you can read more about it here .