Hacker website Darkode Shut Down by means of Authorities

The FBI, working with regulation enforcement authorities out of the country, just busted a large hacker forum. The web site, referred to as Darkode, was used to alternate stolen information and to distribute hacker and spammer instruments.

a complete of 28 arrests had been made on the time of writing, and law enforcement from 20 international locations spanning Europe, Asia, Australia, and South the usa participated. The FBI had get right of entry to to the password-secure website for at least two years.

Darkode’s web site now shows the emblems of various regulation enforcement businesses alongside a message, which reads as follows:

This area and web page had been seized with the aid of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pittsburgh field office and the united states legal professional’s place of work for the Western District of Pennsylvania as part of a joint legislation enforcement operation by means of the F.B.I. and world legislation enforcement businesses appearing via Interpol.

U.S. attorney David Hickton deemed Darkode “a cyber hornet’s nest of prison hackers,” consistent with Reuters.

[by means of the Wall street Journal]