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- The US authorities seized 145 domains and cryptocurrencies associated with Bitencash, a market that sold over 15 million stolen credit cards and generated $ 17 million in revenue.
- Bitencash promoted himself by leaking millions of ticket records for free, using data deposits to attract Cyber -criminals.
- Takedown follows global efforts like Raptor surgery, which recently led to $ 270 and $ 200 million in cryptocurrencies and financial attacks in 10 countries.
The US government seized 145 domains and the undiscovered amounts of cryptocurrencies related to Binencash, a dark web market accused of selling millions of stolen credit cards and personal data.
Bitencash started operating in March 2022, offering a centralized space to buy and sell details of stolen credit cards, credentials for the application and access to the server.
Prosecutors said the market was served by over 117,000 customers and made more than $ 17 million in revenue during a two -year management by facilitating more than 15 million card transactions, per a statement On Wednesday, he announced the US lawyer for the eastern district of Virginia.
The domains seized in surgery will no longer be available and are diverted to servers under law control, preventing further illegal activity.
The US Government has secured legal authorization to take away crypto The funds related to the market, states in a statement.
During their work, Bitencash Administrators allegedly charged transactions, allowing users to buy stolen financial and personal information, including access to credentials for compromised servers.
In order to promote his services and expand his range, Bidecash occasionally published huge data sets for free.
Between October 2022 and February 2023, the platform published 3.3 million stolen records of credit card records, including card numbers, CVV -DO, the names of the account owners, the address E -Star and physical address.
These gifts were part of the user’s attraction strategy and the construction of trust among Cyber criminals, especially after disorders such as distributed attacks of denying services, states report by Cyber -Safe Socardar companies.
DDOS attacks are coordinated efforts to flood the site or server with traffic, forcing it out of the net or interfering with access.
Takedown adds a growing list of dark actions to implement websites that target the crypto-impossible criminal network.
Last month only, Operation Raptor resulted in the arrest of 270 individuals over 10 countriesEntry of property of $ 200 million, including hundreds of millions of cryptocurrencies and dismantling more dark drug trade platforms.
Edited Sebastian Sinclair
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