The U.S. Justice Department has announced the closure of Popeyetools, an illicit cybercrime marketplace. The administrators of the website, Abdul Ghaffar, Abdul Sami, and Javed Mirza, have been charged with selling stolen financial data and facilitating crimes involving ransomware and fraud. The website generated a revenue of $1.7 million since 2016, partly from cryptocurrency payments.
The closure is part of ongoing efforts to combat cybercrime and illicit transactions online.
