Authorities shut down xDedic marketplace for buying hacked servers

guest · Jan 28, 2019

Authorities shut down xDedic marketplace for buying hacked servers
xDedic provided access to more than 85,000 hacked servers in its heyday
January 28, 2019
https://www.zdnet.com/article/authorities-shut-down-xdedic-marketplace-for-buying-hacked-servers/

The FBI, together with authorities from several European countries, have seized the domain and servers of xDedic, a notorious online marketplace where cyber-criminals would sell and buy access to hacked servers.

The site has been around since 2014, but it became widely known after a Kaspersky report published in June 2016.
Investigators said xDedic listed servers from all over the globe and included compromised computers on the networks of local, state, and federal government infrastructure, hospitals, emergency services, major metropolitan transit authorities, accounting and law firms, pension funds, and universities.

After the huge media exposure following the Kaspersky report, the site went underground by restricting its user registration process and mirroring its official portal on the Dark Web, in case authorities would seize its domain.
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But in Europol and FBI press releases published today, authorities announced that they've seized both the domains and the servers hosting the marketplace, effectively shutting down the site and gaining access to its list of customers.
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guest · Feb 1, 2019

Stolen RDP Credentials Live On After xDedic Takedown
Customers of Notorious RDP Marketplace Expected to Move to Rival UAS Market
February 1, 2019
https://www.databreachtoday.com/stolen-rdp-credentials-live-on-after-xdedic-takedown-a-11987

U.S. authorities estimate that xDedic, which was launched in 2014, helped contribute to more than $68 million in global fraud.

Kremez has said that investigators believe that The Dark Overlord, a hacker-extortion gang, regularly sourced RDP credentials from xDedic (see: Ransom Moves: The Dark Overlord Keeps Pressuring Victims).
Buyers Will Likely Flock to UAS
"We suspect UAS will take over the RDP marketplace, solidifying its standing as the pre-eminent RDP shop, given that its main competitor is out of business," Kremez tells Information Security Media Group.
RDP Credential Harvesting Continues
But criminals' collection of RDP credentials continues. Tyler Hudak, the incident response lead at information security consultancy TrustedSec, says his firm continues to see breaches that trace to compromised RDP credentials.
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