Rare cybercrime enforcement in Russia yields 25 arrests, shutters ‘BuyBest’ marketplace
Russian authorities arrested more than two dozen people as part of a law enforcement operation against an alleged network of illicit websites where users bought and sold stolen payment cards and personal data. The Federal Security Service (FSB) on March 20 apprehended 25 people, including Russians and foreign nationals, for their alleged roles in a digital identity theft ring, the agency announced on Tuesday. The accused scammers were allegedly running a dark web marketplace called BuyBest, or GoldenShop, and dozens of corresponding “mirror” websites, according to an alert from the threat intelligence firm Gemini Advisory, which was obtained by CyberScoop. Alexey Stroganov, an accused hacker who went by the name “Flint24,” was among those arrested, according to a court file posted on a Moscow city website. A partial list of those those charged appears to have been published on a LiveJournal page. Multiple discussion forums on Russian-language cybercriminal markets were focused on the […]
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