As reported, Raidforums – the world’s largest forum for hackers – was taken down at the end of February 2022.
Accordingly, US law enforcement agencies have cooperated with Europol and a number of countries to carry out a campaign called Operation TOURNIQUET to take down Raidforums.
The administrator of Raidforums and two accomplices were arrested, the infrastructure of this illegal forum is now under the control of law enforcement.
The administrator and founder of Raidforums is Diogo Santos Coelho, a Portuguese, also known by the nickname Omnipotent.
Recently, the US Department of Justice announced that Omnipotent is only 21 years old, which means that when he founded Raidforums in 2015, he was only 14 years old.
Authorities seized Raidforums’ infrastructure and domain name because this forum was where hackers conducted illegal sales of stolen data.
In a separate report, Europol said Raidforums has more than 500,000 users and is considered one of the world’s largest hacking forums.
Those who maintain Raidforums are accused of acting as administrators, participating in money laundering, stealing and uploading data online, and trading in stolen information.
Omnipotent is accused of controlling Raidforums since January 1, 2015 with the support of several other administrators.
When accessing Raidforums, users will be redirected to the login page and will be asked to enter their account name and password.
Meanwhile, the security community spread information that Jaw – the administrator of this forum – announced that the raidforums.com domain name had been seized and would be transferred to a new domain name.
However, when users access the new address, they only see the message that this is Raidforums’ backup domain name, with no other content.
Raidforums was founded in 2015 and is used by many hackers to share, buy and sell data captured after cyber attacks.
Previously, Raidforums was taken offline on January 30 and only resumed operations on February 12.
(Refer to Quantrimang)
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