“Operation Cookie Monster”
Genesis - shop closed
https://therecord.media/genesis-market-takedown-cybercrime
Alexander Leslie, an associate threat intelligence analyst with Recorded Future, wrote in a Twitter thread Tuesday that Genesis was “one of the world’s largest ‘log’ shops,”
https://twitter.com/aejleslie/status/1643323965077594118
In an February 2020 analysis, Israeli security researcher Alon Gal reported that, at the time, the site was offering 230,000 “infected computers you can buy the logs from.”
In June 2021, hackers who claimed to be involved in the Electronic Arts hack told Vice’s Joseph Cox that they purchased a $10 browser cookie that let them log in to an EA Slack account, a key step in the process that enabled the theft of at least 780 gigabytes of data.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b3jm/genesis-market-buy-cookies-slack
Genesis Market had been linked to “millions of financially motivated cyber incidents globally,”
The .onion mirror of the market is still up and running
https://twitter.com/alpha_centauri3/status/1643550246583107584
truth or honeypot?
https://twitter.com/p_tavieprivee/status/1643496115646480385
Police arrested 119 individuals and conducted 208 searches and interviews across the globe,
Cops put the squeeze on Genesis crime souk denizens, not just the admins this time
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/05/genesis_market_takedown/
Also today, in a related action the US Treasury issued sanctions against Genesis Market
