FBI har gripit en rysk medborgare som misstänks ligga bakom en handelplats för försäljning av kapade, stulna konton.
Tillslaget gjordes efter en längre utredning av FBI.
U.S. authorities have arrested a Russian man accused of running an illicit service where buyers allegedly have spent years purchasing stolen data and hacked web accounts.
In a complaint unsealed March 9, the FBI accused Kirill Victorovich Frisov of operating Deer.io, a web hosting service where subscribers can host independent stores online for roughly $250. The site, which remains online, is based in Russia, outside the reach of U.S. law enforcement, and advertises itself as the home of more than 24,000 accounts with more than $17 million in sales.
Unlike legitimate hosting services, Deer.io promises anonymity and markets strong defenses against the kind of distributed denial-of-service attacks that scammers often use to harass each other, the threat intelligence provider Digital Shadows found in 2016. FBI investigators probing the site determined it existed entirely for the purpose of cybercrime.
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