Nothing to hide - FBI seizes popular cybercrime forum used for large-scale identity theft

The crime forum, which has advertised login details for personal bank accounts, grew out of research that hackers did on anti-fraud technologies used by hundreds of banks and payment systems, according to cybersecurity researchers.

Genesis Market also sells “digital fingerprints” – the set of data collected from computers that identifies individual users online. Advertisements on Genesis Market have claimed that as long as someone has access to a hacked computer, the computer’s fingerprints will be kept up to date, according …

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