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8base ransomware group has apparently been seized or done an exit scam.
Two of its Tor portals say "This hidden site and the criminal content have been seized by the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office on behalf of the Office of the Public Prosecutor General in Bamberg"
They had been hitting some high profile targets in recent times.
HT @cR0w
The text comes from the HTML source btw.
8base weren't particular great at OPSEC, e.g. their Tor server was blatantly publicly visible on the plain internet for a while - it also had SSH running with the same host signature that LockBit 3.0 use.
based on the timestamps, apparently the portal changed yesterday. Their last victim post was 10 days ago. Has gone from Nginx to Apache webserver on Debian.
Law enforcement confirm they did a takedown of 8base ransomware group. You heard it here on Mastodon first thanks to @cR0w
https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/10/global-police-operation-seizes-8base-ransomware-gang-leak-site/
4 people have been arrested over the 8base Ransomware takedown.
In Thailand.
@GossiTheDog @bsi wrong agency ^^ they mostly regulate and don’t enforce ^^
@GossiTheDog people running apache is a big red flag :D
@GossiTheDog @cR0w That reminds me that they've extradited the guy they say is behind Phobos. Kind of hoping he'll plea-deal a shorter sentence in exchange for a decryptor and key database. Also hoping there's a testing program for it that I could sign up for. Got a few GB of test data. :S
@GossiTheDog BKA mostly has the lead when in comes to counter cybercrime ops in DE, BSI has no authority in this regard. Looks like BKA has been busy with nulled to and cracked io lately, another takedown within 10days would be surprising https://www.bka.de/SharedDocs/Kurzmeldungen/DE/Kurzmeldungen/250130_Operation_Talent.html
@GossiTheDog Hi, no, the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office seized the portal on behalf of the Office of the Public Prosecutor in Bamberg, Germany. Best wishes from the BSI
@bsi@social.bund.de @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Just Gossi casually conversing with a federal agency for the largest economy in Europe about whether or not they took down some cyber baddies. Typical Monday.
@julie @GossiTheDog @bsi with memes even