An international coalition of law enforcement agencies reduced two pirate forums that had more than 10 million users, Europol, one of the agencies participating in the process.
On Thursday, Europol and Germany Police in BKA The seizures were declared From cracked and nulled. BKA called “the world’s two largest commercial platforms in the world for online crime,” according to a mechanism for the BKA press statement.
The confirmation of the operation comes after a day of cybersecurity Experts I noticed This escalating, in addition to two other sites called Sellix and Starkrdp, appears to have been seized by redirecting the domain names engines to the servers run by the FBI. The four sites later displayed a banner announcing the procedure of law enforcement, called “Talent Operation”.
“These sites have worked as one comprehensive stores and were not only used for discussions on Internet crimes, but also as markets for illegal commodities and electronic crimes as a service, such as stolen data, malware or piracy tools,” Europol books. ” In her press statement.
and The announcement was published on Wednesday The official Telegram channel said in Cracked.
Europol said that the operation took place between Tuesday and Thursday and resulted in two intended, seven real estate, and the description of 17 servers, 50 electronic devices, and 300,000 euros (313,000 dollars) in cash and an encrypted currency.
According to BKA, the law enforcement coalition has seized dozens of accounts and areas in ten countries. Also, twelve people have been identified as being involved in the operation of electronic crime platforms. Two German citizens – one of whom lived in Germany, who lived in Spain – were arrested -; Two others will face the prosecution by us, the Spanish and the Greek authorities. The agencies said they acquired email addresses, IP addresses and the history of communications from the seized forums.
video Posted by Europol displaying the Spanish authorities, Policia Nacional (National Police) and Civil Guardia entering a building, arrested three people, calculating cash, searching in an apartment, as well as sitting in front of a computer that displays the Nuba banner.
The operation, led by the German authorities, also included law enforcement agencies from Australia, France, Greece, Italy, Romania and Spain, as well as the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office in the United States.
Australian Federal Police said in an email message that it “will provide an update at an appropriate time.” None of the other agencies concerned responded to the Techcrunch request for comment.
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Operation Talent is the latest Salvo in a series of law enforcement for a year against e -crime forums, such as famous violations, which were first seized in 2023, and again in 2024. later in 2024 – Endgame operating name It targeted many piracy and malware services, which led to the arrest of four suspects. At that time, Europol also identified eight fleeing fugitives claiming to be involved in the scheme.
