FBI, Secret Service Operation Takes Down Avcheck Site used to test malware
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- The FBI has taken Avcheck, a site that offers services for cyber criminals
- AVCHeck was used to test malware against AV providers without increasing alarms
- Two crypting services were also dismantled
AVCHeck.net, a website that offers analysis services for cyber criminals, has been taken offline as part of a larger law enforcement operation carried out by the FBI, as well as the Dutch and Finnish police.
At the time of the press, the website was made illegible and the usual FBI Takedown knowledge was shown: “This domain was seized in accordance with a seizure of the American court for the southern district of Texas as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation.”
The site operated like a counter antivirus (CAV) service, so that cyber criminals can test their malware on multiple antivirus engines before they use it, so that they will go unnoticed during attacks. It was marketed as a “high-speed antivirus tight checker” and enabled users to scan files, domains and IP addresses on numerous security tools without warning antivirus Sellers.
Operation endgame
Matthijs Jaspers, team leader of the Dutch High Tech Crime team, described the Takedown as a “important step” in the fight against cyber crime, “because it disrupts the activities of cyber criminals in the earliest stages and victims,” said the press release, published on the Dutch police web site.
The same announcement said that the research that led to this removal also resulted in “important evidence” about the managers and users of not only AVCHeck, but also related services – cryptor.biz and crypt.guru.
These two were ‘crypting services’ that criminals used to “crypt” malwarehelp to avoid detection.
A separate announcement, published on the DOJ site at the end of May, says that the operation resulted in “in the seizure of four domains and their associated server”.
This announcement did not mention specific services, but it is safe to assume that it was about these three.
The Takedowns are part of Operation Endgame, a large -scale, coordinated international initiative aimed at dismantling cyber criminal infrastructure, in particular aimed at malware and ransomware.
French, German, Ukrainian and Portuguese law enforcement also participated in various capacities.
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