OP 04 June, 2022 - 09:16 AM
the seized domains are:
- weleakinfo[.]to
- ipstress[.]in
- ovh-booter[.]com
The first one on the list was a cybercrime marketplace that let users advertise and trade stolen personal information. It featured a searchable database of information stolen in over 10,000 breaches.
The website’s database consisted of 7 billion records of personally identifiable information (PII), including full names, usernames, phone numbers, email addresses, and online account credentials (usernames and passwords). Users could access these stolen records through varying subscription tiers.
In January 2020, authorities confiscated a domain bearing an almost identical name (weleakinfo[.]com) and made 21 arrests tied to the illicit operation. Last year, one of the related domain’s operators received a two-year prison sentence.
While the other two domains on the list didn’t deal in marketing stolen data, they acted as cybercrime hubs. Ipstress[.]in and ovh-booter[.]com hosted DDoS-as-a-service operations, where clients could execute DDoS attacks on their desired targets by proxy by simply paying a sum of money.
DDoS attacks are cyberattacks designed to make targeted machines