On Thursday, an international coalition of law enforcement services by Australia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Spain and the United States occupied and occupied two protruding hacking forums and two other relevant government services.
After a ceasefire work has been disclosed Europe And Germany Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) On Thursday, the US Department of Justice published her own announcementproviding more details on the two forums, which were called cracked and unintentional.
According to Doj, since 2018 cracked had over four million users negotiating cyberspace and stolen information, producing about $ 4 million in revenue. Prosecutors report that the evidence of cyber crimes forums affected at least 17 million Americans.
Among those affected includes a woman in New York, who is alleged to be “Cyberstalked”, “Sextorted”, and harassed by someone who used a cracked product, who promised “billions of website leaks”, allowing the Users to search for stolen logging credentials, prosecutors said.
“A cyberspace entered the victim’s username in the tool and received the victim’s credentials for an electronic account. Using the victim’s credentials, the issue then completed the victim and sent sexually derogatory and threatening messages to the victim,” which said that the forum seizures are aimed at disrupting “this type of crime in cyberspace and its multiplication these tools in the community of cybercrime.”
As another example, Doj said there was a product in cancellation claiming to contain the names and social security numbers of 500,000 US citizens.
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Nulled, which operated since 2016, had over five million users and over 43 million hacking advertising tools and stolen data. Doj said Nulled had an annual revenue of about $ 1 million.
The DOJ Press Release said Lucas Sohn, a 29 -year -old Argentine who lives in Spain, is accused of being an “active manager” of Nulled and faces criminal charges for various cybercrime crimes, including passwords and other unauthorized computers. .
Sohn faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison for conspiracy for passwords, 10 years in prison for access fraud and 15 years in prison for identity fraud, Doj said.
