InfoSecurity Magazine reports:
BlackSuit’s dark web data leak site and private negotiation panels have been taken offline in what appears to be a large-scale law enforcement operation.
On July 24, the ransomware group’s leading site, usually accessible via The Onion Router (TOR), displayed a banner stating, “This site has been seized by U.S. Homeland Security Investigations as part of a coordinated international law enforcement investigation.”
No official statement has been made at the time of writing, however, the banner shows that the effort, dubbed Operation Checkmate, involved the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and 16 other law enforcement agencies from nine countries.
The international coalition included the US, the UK, Ukraine and Latvia, as well as Europol and Bitdefender, a private cybersecurity firm based in Romania and the US.
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