Australia and 17 other countries involved in the seizure of a popular dark web marketplace, known as Genesis Market.'Operation Cookie Monster' was led by the FBI and Dutch National Police.
"We assess that the Genesis is one of the most significant access marketplaces anywhere in the world," the NCA's Director General of Threat Leadership Rob Jones said. The website was based in Russia, according to the United States Treasury, which said it had imposed sanctions against Genesis Market. Action against criminals took place in countries including Australia, Britain, Canada, the United States, and more than 10 countries in Europe.
Genesis specialised in the sale of digital products, especially "browser fingerprints" harvested from computers infected with malicious software, said Louise Ferrett, an analyst at British cybersecurity firm Searchlight Cyber.
government should introduce mandatory life sentence with hard labour for these criminals