The German police have seized infrastructure for the darknet Nemesis Market cybercrime marketplace in Germany and Lithuania, disrupting the site's operation.
German police have confiscated 50,000 bitcoin worth $2.17 billion in the country's 'most extensive' cryptocurrency seizure ever, it said in a statement on Tuesday.
"This is the most extensive seizure of bitcoins by law enforcement authorities in the Federal Republic of Germany to date," police in the city of Dresden said.
The investigation was supported by the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the FBI and a Munich-based forensic IT expert company, it said.
The FBI says it has released a decryption tool allowing hundreds of ALPHV/BlackCat victims to restore their scrambled files.
The Ragnar Locker ransomware operation's Tor negotiation and data leak sites were seized Thursday morning as part of an international law enforcement operation.
The Justice Department, IRS and FBI seized and shut down a popular marketplace used by cybercriminals to buy stolen Social Security numbers and other sensitive personal information.
The SSNDOB Marketplace – which the DOJ said generated more than $19 million in sales revenue – was shut down in coordination with law enforcement agencies in Cyprus and Latvia.
Seizure orders were executed against several domains associated with SSNDOB including ssndob.ws, ssndob.vip, ssndob.club, and blackjob.biz.
