French authorities introduced on Wednesday that an alleged administrator of the XSS.is cybercrime discussion board has been arrested in Ukraine.
The suspect has not been named and Ukrainian police have but to concern an announcement on the matter.
Based on the Public Prosecutor’s Workplace in Paris, the person was arrested on July 22 as a part of an investigation launched 4 years in the past. The arrest came about within the presence of French police, which obtained help from Europol.
The investigation focused a Jabber server named ‘thesecure.biz’, which the XSS discussion board used to facilitate nameless communications between members.
French police intercepted messages, which dropped at mild ransomware and different cybercrime that generated a minimum of $7 million in earnings.
XSS is a Russian-language cybercrime discussion board that has been round for greater than a decade — 20 years if we rely an earlier model named DaMaGeLaB.
The web site has been utilized by its members to purchase and promote ransomware and different malware, entry to compromised methods, stolen information, and zero-days and different exploits. It has additionally been used to leak information stolen in high-profile hacks.
Earlier this yr, French authorities arrested a 25-year-old British nationwide believed to be the infamous hacker generally known as IntelBroker. He’s dealing with extradition to america, the place he has been charged over his alleged cybercriminal actions. Commercial. Scroll to proceed studying.
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