End of xDedic: The FBI, along with other agencies from various European countries, stopped it mode of the domain and seized the servers of xDedic. 
The xDedic domain was a popular online marketplace where malicious users were selling and buying access to hacked servers. Three suspects have been arrested in Ukraine.
The online market has been known since 2014, but became widely known after a Kaspersky post in June 2016.
According to the publication, the website functioned as an online marketplace, where many criminal groups either put up for sale or bought hacked servers, usually with the infringement of RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol).
At the time, Kaspersky reported that the site had around 70.000 hacked servers, and the price per server was only 8 dollars. xDedic's hacked servers later grew to 85.000, and the price dropped to $6, according to a Flashpoint post the 2017.
Authorities say the xDedic domain had hacked servers around the world. There were broken systems in government services, hospitals, emergency services, universities and many others.
After the huge exhibition that followed after publication (PDF) by Kaspersky, the page has been moved to the Dark Web, for added security.
However, in her press releases Europol and FBI released today, authorities announced that they had gained access to both the domains and servers that hosted the online market, effectively shutting down the site and gaining access to its client list.
Authorities said its main infrastructure online shoppings xDedic, was in Belgium and Ukraine. The Ukrainian Police, on the other hand, announced the arrest of three suspects related to the case.
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