The FBI and law enforcement agencies from several European countries have shut down an underground marketplace that specialized in selling access to hacked computers and servers. Called xDedic, the site had been around for years, first on the open internet and then also on the Tor network. According to a 2016 report from Kaspersky Lab, the online shop was run by a group of Russian-speaking hackers.

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The takedown happened Thursday but was only announced January 28 by Europol and Eurojust, who coordinated the investigation among authorities in Belgium, the U.S. and Ukraine. Law enforcement in Germany helped confiscate the site's IT infrastructure, and the domain names were seized through an order issued by a U.S. judge.

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