The US Department of Justice (DoJ) joined forces with international law enforcement to shut down a few Dark Web cybercrime forums, two operations that impacted underground markets associated with the attacks on millions of victims worldwide.
Pakistani dark web forum shut down
Result? “Cracked” and “nulled” websites are down, along with the Pakistani “Saim Raza” network of dark web forums, also called “HeartSender.” The long-term implications of this operation are not known.
DoJ partnered with international agencies to crack down on cybercrime
First, DoJ with the Dutch National Police captured 39 domains operated by a Pakistani group known as Saim Raza (aka HeartSender). DoJ says Saim Raza has been working since 2020, selling fraud tools and phishing kits to the highest bidder throughout a network of dark websites.
Criminals purchasing the tools are accountable for global business email compromise (BEC) attacks and other dangerous scams- against victims in the US who were robbed of $3 million.
The DoJ believes Saim Raza made these “tools widely available on the open Internet” and “also trained end users on how to use the tools against victims by linking
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