First LockBit, now BreachForums: Are cops winning the war or just a few battles?

On Wednesday the FBI and international cops celebrated yet another cybercrime takedown – of ransomware brokerage site BreachForums – just a week after doxing and imposing sanctions on the LockBit ransomware crew's kingpin, and two months after compromising the gang's website.of the LockBit seizure in February, it did brag the stolen data marketplace"is under control of the FBI" and include profile pics of website admins Baphomet and ShinyHunters.

That operation – which shuttered the crew's websites and took control of its servers – was the culmination of a seven-month covert operation during which theWhen it comes to police takedowns of these criminal networks,"the level of effectiveness varies," McPherson concedes. "It remains to be seen, but it sounds like a dismantlement because it sounds like they've arrested the administrators," he tellsBerglas cites the website's seizure banner showing the admins locked up along with Telegram chatter."If that's the case, it's closer to a dismantlement," Berglas observes."It sounds like they're deep in, they have full access to the back end.

One of these dismantlements was LulzSec – the group linked to Anonymous, and its leader Sabu, who was arrested in June 2011.

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