"The FBI has seized control of domains linked to the BreachForums hacking forum, used by cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade hacked or stolen data. "This takedown removes access to a key hub used by these actors to monetize intrusions, recruit collaborators, and target victims across multiple sectors," the FBI. "It demonstrates the reach of coordinated international law enforcement operations to impose costs on those behind cyber crime.""
""Each seizure chips away at its credibility, and repeated takedowns always raise the lingering question within the underground community about whether the site, or its successors, are secretly being run or monitored by authorities. That kind of uncertainty is often as damaging to these forums as the actual takedown itself," he said. "Each takedown makes these communities more fragile and less trusted, and the logistics of keeping a large, centralized platform online under constant law enforcement scrutiny have become unsustainable.""
The FBI seized domains linked to BreachForums, a forum used by cybercriminals to buy, sell, and trade hacked or stolen data. The forum has been used by hacking groups including Baphomet, IntelBroker, and ShinyHunters, which have formed Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters and recently took control of the domain. These actors carried out recent Salesforce attacks against Google, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Cloudflare, and targeted companies such as Disney, Qantas, Air France-KLM, and Toyota, using the site to leak data and extort victims. Prior seizures in March 2023 after the founder's arrest and a joint operation with Europol were followed by site resurrections and successor platforms. Repeated takedowns erode forum credibility, raise uncertainty about covert monitoring, and make centralized criminal platforms more fragile and less sustainable.
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