FBI Seizes RAMP Cybercrime Forum Used By Ransomware Gangs

joshuark shares a report from BleepingComputer: The FBI has seized the notorious RAMP cybercrime forum, a platform used to advertise a wide range of malware and hacking services, and one of the few remaining forums that openly allowed the promotion of ransomware operations. Both the forum's Tor site and its clearnet domain, ramp4u[.]io, now display a seizure notice stating, "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized RAMP."

While there has been no official announcement by law enforcement regarding this seizure, the domain name servers have now been switched to those used by the FBI when seizing domains. If so, law enforcement now has access to a significant amount of data tied to the forum's users, including email addresses, IP addresses, private messages, and other potentially incriminating information. In a forum post to the XSS hacking forum, one of the alleged former RAMP operators known as "Stallman" confirmed the seizure.

Good

[tigersha]

I hope Bubba takes their lunch money for ransom and give them lots of slippery soap

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[Himmy32]

We don't need to normalize prison rape in order to advocate for justice.

Dr. Evil levels of reality.

[geekmux]

It would be comedy gold to watch an FBI goon posing as Dr. Evil on video doing a stone-cold revenge plan with pinky solidly buried in the crook of his mouth spouting ”One treeeellion dollars” in response to hackers wanting their domain back.

That comedy would quickly turn into a fucking documentary when the hackers respond with “No problem. You want that in dollars, euros, or bitcoin..”

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[chas.williams]

Return the domain, collect the $1T, seize it again.

Stallman?

[Provocateur]

Taking the guy's name is a new level of mean with a gazillion names out there, Dolittle, Mixalot, etc. they had to choose that one. "You think you're better than us?"

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[snowshovelboy]

What about the possibility that the government already pwned both servers months ago, collecting evidence while lurking, and now that they think they have a case, they need to do real construction of evidence instead of the parallel construction they were doing before, so they have to officially seize them now and put them into evidence.

No tribute?

[fafalone]

What, did they refuse to pay the charity defrauding, child raping, insurrection committing convicted felon in chief a big enough cut of the profits? Or just accidentally hit one of his cronies? Owner better hope he hid enough away to purchase a pardon... they're surprisingly affordable though. You'd think a president selling out his country would charge more than a few million for a pardon... alas i guess he really needs the gallons of spray tan.

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[SumDog]

Jesus Christ what the fuck does this story have to do with Orange Man? Your off-topic derangement is beyond retarded. Stop watching the news and go outside man.

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[smooth wombat]

The orange guy has given out multiple pardons to people convicted of fraud, corruption, and drug dealing after they "donated" to his campaign [forbes.com].

The most recent example is the former governor of Puerto Rico who plead guilty in a federal corruption case [cbsnews.com]. The daughter gave over $3 million to Trump's PAC, MAGA, after which the pardon was given.

The OP was merely mentioning that with all the other criminals getting pardons after paying their tribute, apparently this group didn't give theirs.

Git off my turf, punk!

[jenningsthecat]

In these parts, only the President is allowed to scam citizens!

Is it so...

[Meekrobe]

Is it so they have a list of people to pardon?

New one will be up in 2 weeks

[gweihir]

And with better OpSec. This problem cannot be solved on the side of the criminals. It can only be solved by better IT security. Which is entirely possible, but the greed and non-caring of the major players (fueled by a lack of liability, regulation and engineering standards) prevents that.