FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers
Summary: The FBI seized several clear-web domains tied to Genesis Market, a cybercrime store active since 2018 that sold access to passwords and authentication cookies stolen from infected computers, pursuant to a warrant from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The action coincided with an international investigation involving 14 countries that produced 400 law enforcement actions, including 119 arrests and 208 searches and interviews, and the DOJ said investigators accessed the market's user database of more than 59,000 registered users.
Bottom line: Genesis held more than 450,000 bots for sale as of March 21, 2023, and its customers bought working session cookies that let them reach accounts without a password and in some cases without multi-factor authentication - the same access a $10 Genesis bot gave hackers who broke into EA in 2021.
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