Online Marketplace Selling Hacked Server Credentials Taken Offline by Authorities
Online Marketplace Selling Hacked Server Credentials Taken Offline by Authorities xDedic, an online marketplace for buying and selling hacked server credentials, is no longer accessible to users after authorities took it offline as part of the coordinated multi-country law enforcement action. Users who try to access the xDedic website are referred to a U.S. government site explaining that the online marketplace was taken offline. On January 24, this year, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in pursuant to a seizure warrant issued by the U.S District Court for the Middle District of Florida seized the servers and domain names of xDedic. The seizure was made possible with the assistance of the authorities in Europe, including the Federal Prosecutor’s Office and the Investigating Judge of Belgium, the Ukrainian National Cyber…