Russian law enforcement bursts digital identity theft ring

Russian law enforcement agencies have arrested 25 people including Russian nationals who were allegedly running a digital identity theft ring. The Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that the scammers offered stolen identities on the dark web sites ‘BuyBest’, ‘GoldenShop’ and about 90 other corresponding mirror sites. Cyberscoop reported that BestBuy and associated websites were offline, although cached pages were still available and advertising stolen identities.