Site Catering to Online Criminals Has Been Seized by the FBI
FBI disrupted a key platform for ransomware and malware trade, seizing RAMP's domains and accessing user data from over 14,000 members, officials said.
- On Wednesday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the RAMP cybercrime forum's Tor and ramp4uio domains, posting a notice citing coordination with the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida and the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section.
- Following bans on rival forums last year, RAMP launched by Orange served more than 14,000 registered users who paid a $500 fee, with $250,000 annual revenue claimed in 2024.
- The seizure banner echoed RAMP branding, displaying 'THE ONLY PLACE RANSOMWARE ALLOWED!' and a winking Masha, Tammy Harper said the takedown disrupts criminal infrastructure and offers rare insight opportunities.
- Poor-Opsec actors risk identification and arrests as the seizure disrupts a leading marketplace for ransomware-as-a-service gangs and initial access brokers, but users will migrate to alternative underground markets such as Rehub.
- Switching DNS to FBI seizure nameservers likely gives law enforcement access to emails, IP addresses and private messages, fitting broader efforts against ransomware threatening critical infrastructure.
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Site catering to online criminals has been seized by the FBI
RAMP—the predominantly Russian-language online bazaar that billed itself as the “only place ransomware allowed”—had its dark web and clear web sites seized by the FBI as the agency tries to combat the growing scourge threatening critical infrastructure and organizations around the world. Visits to both sites on Wednesday returned pages that said the FBI had taken control of the RAMP domains, which mirrored each other. RAMP has been among the dwi…
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FBI seizes RAMP cybercrime forum used by ransomware gangs
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.
The FBI has seized RAMP, a cybercrime forum known to allow the promotion of ransomware campaigns. The operation marks the fall of a space that has become central in an ecosystem that is increasingly discreet.
The "LeBonCoin of ransomware" is dead. The Russian-language forum RAMP has just been seized by the FBI. The American federal police took control of the servers and obtained mountains of data that could reveal the identities of the cybercriminals who frequented the forum...
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