“ Researchers and law enforcement intelligence officials monitoring Genesis Market’s primary alternatives, Russian Market and 2easy Shop - sites that similarly sold browser data
that allowed scammers to commit fraud - say the takedown has had a global impact on online crime.
This was a standard move, he said, showing how
little trust the underworld had for operators who
had been successfully targeted by law enforcement.
"The market right now is very much in flux," said Tóth-Czifra,
who stressed that the takedown was a relatively recent event.
Even if it was real, there was no way to know if
it was fully secure following the takedown. He
was previously a technology reporter for Sky News and is also a fellow at the European Cyber Conflict
Research Initiative. Its administrators had worked
hard to build its reputation and popularity across a number of the most important
dark web forums, even operating their own Telegram
channel, but "doubts have begun to creep in about the administration team," she said, due to
their suspicious behavior. ”