The Dhaka Times Desk The buyers and sellers of the online 'marketplace' Genesis are all criminals. The vendors here carry out cyber attacks and steal confidential information of individuals and organizations.
From there, online fraudsters buy all information related to password, login, IP address and other information. With this information they could create a fake 'digital fingerprint' of the victim. Later he used it to carry out various criminal activities.
Fraudsters take control of people's shopping and bank accounts, often using information sold on Genesis Market for less than a dollar. Genesis Market's website was seized and hundreds of people arrested in an operation involving law enforcement agencies from 17 countries around the world. Information from CNBC.
The operation began in the early hours of Tuesday local time. The operation was led by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Dutch National Police. In addition, the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA), the Australian Federal Police and law enforcement agencies from various European countries participated in the operation. 120 people were arrested in raids in 200 places in different countries of the world.
According to media reports, Genesis Market's website is currently under the control of law enforcement agencies. The global campaign against online fraudsters has been named 'Online Cookie Monster'. A visit to the Genesis website yesterday (April 5) revealed that there was nothing before and it read, 'Online Cookie Monster. This website has also been seized'.
Genesis Market had the personal information and digital fingerprints of 80 million users for sale. The UK's NCA says that this has created endless opportunities for fraudsters to commit fraud. Robert Jones, director general of the NCA's National Economic Crime Centre, said: 'Genesis has been harvesting the personal data of ordinary people for years. We now want the criminals to be afraid that now we have their personal data too.'
Genesis Market started its journey in 2017. It had a reputation for being very easy to use. Login information for different people could be purchased from one place by entering the Genesis website. Individuals' account passwords, information about where they browsed, cookies, autofill data, IP addresses and location information could also be purchased. Fraudsters could use this information to access the victim's email, shopping and bank accounts. Through which they used to commit various crimes.
Dutch police launched a portal on Genesis' website after seizing it. That's where anyone can know if their information has actually been stolen.
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