The FBI teamed up with European legislation enforcement authorities to dismantle {the marketplace} however couldn’t arrest its directors.
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation/FBI and the IRS, in collaboration with legislation enforcement authorities from Latvia and Cyprus, seized domains related to the notorious SSNDOB Market. The seized domains embrace the next:
- Ssndob.ws
- Ssndob.vip
- Blackjob.biz
- Ssndob.membership
The seizure orders have been executed on Tuesday, June eighth, 2022. SSNDOB was concerned in promoting stolen non-public information of customers, which guests may get entry to after paying in cryptocurrency, to {the marketplace} directors. The knowledge was later utilized in phishing assaults, identification fraud, and extortion.
Blockchain analytics agency Chainalysis acknowledged that the service acquired round USD22 million in Bitcoin throughout 100,000 transactions since 2015. Some customers spent greater than USD100,000 on bulk shopping for of PII.
The report highlighted that there may very well be a hyperlink between Joker’s Stash and SSNDOB. Joker’s Stash specialised in illicit buying and selling of stolen PII and bank card information, and the service was shut down in 2021.
SSNDOB’s Background
SSNDOB is an underground cybercrime market recognized for promoting personally identifiable info (PII), together with customers’ names, e-mail IDs, dates of beginning, bank card and Social Safety numbers, and passwords.
{The marketplace} ran a collection of internet sites to promote PII. The directors marketed the websites on the Darkish Internet cybercrime boards and provided buyer assist. {The marketplace} earned over USD19 million by promoting non-public information of round 24 million victims, most of that are US residents.
Furthermore, the admins of SSNDOB employed quite a few anonymity safety measures and detection evading methods reminiscent of utilizing on-line monikers to cover their identities, utilizing servers from completely different international locations, and asking for funds in cryptocurrencies, primarily Bitcoin and Litecoin.
SSNDOB – A Menace to Consumer Security
The US Division of Justice (DoJ) defined (and as we all know it) that if customers’ non-public information lands within the fallacious palms, the menace actors can exploit the sufferer in a couple of method. As an example, identification theft may cause heavy monetary loss to the sufferer, which may trigger a “devastating affect on a sufferer’s long-term emotional and monetary well being.”
As per the particular agent accountable for the IRS-Legal Investigation Washington, DC Subject Workplace, Darrell Waldon, the dismantling of SSNDOB will disrupt identification theft criminals and assist hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been victimized.
 “Particular brokers with IRS-CI’s DC Cyber Crimes Unit will proceed to work with the US and worldwide legislation enforcement neighborhood to finish these advanced scams, no matter the place the cash path leads them.”
Particular Agent in Cost Darrell Waldon – IRS
Extra Cyber Crime Discussion board Seizures
- Feds seize WeLeakInfo.com for promoting stolen databases
- Area, server of DoubleVPN utilized by ransomware gangs seized
- Russia seizes Trump Dumps, Ferum, and SkyFraud carding boards
- Police shut down unlawful video streaming app Mobdro with 100M customers
- FBI Seizes RaidForums and Arrests Alleged Founder Diogo Santos Coelho
