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66. ‘Operation Cookie Monster' and the Genesis takedown

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The Rise of the Genesis Marketplace

Genesis was stealing computers around the world and then selling on the dark web. They also sold lots of other identifying information, like IP addresses or a computer's location. And if a fraudster was using those things too? Well, it meant you could impersonate someone online in an incredibly convincing way. The criminal underworld calls it an access broker.

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