BreachForums, one of the most popular underground forums for sharing malware, stolen data, and more – was taken down. Now, the admin seems to be giving up and looking for someone to pass the torch to.
Over the weekend, the Cyber Counter-Intelligence Threat Investigation Consortium (CCITIC) posted on LinkedIn, saying that both the clearnet and Tor versions of BreachForums were displaying a 502 – Bad Gateway error. CCITIC is a non-profit which investigates cybersecurity threats and assists law enforcement in takedown efforts, and the organization said it managed to identify the upstream servers behind BreachForums, all hosted on DigitalOcean (ASN 14061) in the Frankfurt am Main datacenter.
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