Authorities in Russia are once again touting a major takedown of a cybercrime operation.
Notices posted on the former website of cybercrime forum SkyFraud warned users that the site has been seized by police and was being investigated for criminal charges.
According to a translation of the notice provided by threat monitoring group VX-underground, police in Russia notified visitors Monday that the site was “permanently closed during a special law enforcement operation.” According to TASS, a news agency operated by the Russian government, authorities also arrested six alleged members of an unnamed cyber fraud organization on Monday.
The SkyFraud forum was one of the more popular carding sites on the internet. The site allowed users to buy and sell stolen credit card credentials harvested via fraud operations or site compromises. The stolen card details were then used to make fraudulent purchases, usually by criminals who were separated from the hackers by one or more financial transactions.
VX-underground notes that, in addition to taking the front-end of the site offline, Russian police left a notice to hackers in the page’s source code, embedding a comment reading…
