Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?
Summary: Europol said a French-led investigation resulted in the arrest in Kiev of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members, whose members included cybercriminals from REvil, LockBit, Conti, and Qiliin. The suspect, widely believed by forum members to be the longtime administrator known as "Toha," was described by Europol as a trusted third party who arbitrated disputes and guaranteed transactions, and whose accounts on other forums have been silent since the raid.
Key Takeaway: Ukrainian and French authorities now hold several years of private messages, contact rosters, and user data from the seized Jabber server, which one forum user said is material for analysis that has already been done - contact graphs, IP addresses, writing styles, and typos that link nicknames to real people.
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