U.S. law enforcement authorities along with international partners have disrupted a “criminal online marketplace” that stole data from millions of computers infected with malware.
Founded in March 2018, Genesis Market was an online platform that offered access to data stolen from more than 1.5 million compromised computers containing over 80 million account access credentials. In an operation dubbed “Cookie Monster,” American law enforcement officials seized 11 domain names used to support the online marketplace, according to an April 5 press release by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
