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A popular darknet marketplace known for selling personal details and login credentials has changed hands just months after the FBI announced it had been taken down.
An admin for Genesis Market made the announcement that the entire site and most of its infrastructure was for sale on 28 June on a popular hacking forum.
The post, in both Russian and English, said the sale was a “great opportunity to multiply profits for those who have their own traffic flow”.
“The Genesis Team decided to sell the store with all the developments, including a complete database (except for some details of the client base), source codes, scripts, with a certain agreement, as well as server infrastructure,” the original for sale post said.
According to darknet monitoring company Flare – who shared the details of the post with Bleeping Computer – the sale includes all the credentials currently for sale on the market, such as passwords, device fingerprints, and cookies.
Late last week, the same admin announced that the sale was complete.
“A buyer has been found and a deposit has been made,” the admin said in a post translated from Russian. “The store will be handed over to a new owner next month. Accounts on the forums will not be transferred, the new owner will create new accounts if necessary.”
Genesis Market was created in 2017, and it offers account details for a range of online services, such as Netflix, Amazon, and PayPal. One of its major selling points is a javascript engine that monitors compromised credentials in real time, and as of April 2023, hosted the details of more than 2 million victims and 80 million digital profiles.
The FBI announced it had shut down and seized the clear web site of the market in April; however, the site was back up within weeks.
David Hollingworth has been writing about technology for over 20 years, and has worked for a range of print and online titles in his career. He is enjoying getting to grips with cyber security, especially when it lets him talk about Lego.
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