Rare cybercrime enforcement in Russia yields 25 arrests, shutters 'BuyBest' marketplace

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

https://www.cyberscoop.com/buybest-hackers-arrested-fsb-russia/

By Jeff Stone
CYBERSCOOP
March 25, 2020

Russian authorities arrested more than two dozen people as part of a law 
enforcement operation against an alleged network of illicit websites where 
users bought and sold stolen payment cards and personal data.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) on March 20 apprehended 25 people, 
including Russians and foreign nationals, for their alleged roles in a 
digital identity theft ring, the agency announced on Tuesday.

The accused scammers were allegedly running a dark web marketplace called 
BuyBest, or GoldenShop, and dozens of corresponding “mirror” websites, 
according to an alert from the threat intelligence firm Gemini Advisory, 
which was obtained by CyberScoop. Alexey Stroganov, an accused hacker who 
went by the name “Flint24,” was among those arrested, according to a court 
file posted on a Moscow city website. A partial list of those those 
charged appears to have been published on a LiveJournal page.

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