Darkode was a one-stop, high-volume shopping venue for some of the world’s most prolific cyber criminals. The FBI, Europol, and 19 other countries shut down the Darkode forum this week. The site was considered the most sophisticated English-speaking forum for cybercriminals. Darkode represented one of the gravest threats to the integrity of data on computers in the U.S. and around the world, the FBI said. Cybercrime expert says takedowns are generally ineffective, but it’s not the end of the black market for stolen data.”]
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