Law enforcement seized the Genesis Market cybercrime marketplace

Law enforcement seized the Genesis Market black marketplace, a platform focused on the sale of stolen credentials, as part of Operation Cookie Monster.

The FBI seized the Genesis Market, a black marketplace for stolen credentials that was launched in 2017. Genesis Market was an invite-only marketplace, but it was not complex to find invite codes online.

One of the most interesting features offered by the platform is the access to “browser fingerprints” that allow crooks to impersonate victims’ web browsers, including IP addresses, operating system data, time zones, device info, session cookies, and more.

The price for a stolen account was very cheap, paying a few dollars crooks were able to use it for a specific period. Genesis Market provided access to accounts of the most popular services, including Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Gmail, Netflix, PayPal, Spotify, and Zoom.

The seizure is part of a law enforcement operation codenamed Operation Cookie Monster.

The home page of the Genesis Market domains now shows a banner informing visitors that the FBI has executed a seizure warrant.

“These seizures were possible because of international law enforcement and private sector coordination involving the partners listed below” reads the banner.

The authorities are searching for information about the administrators of the platform, a circumstance that suggests that the FBI has yet to identify them.

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.