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Prosecutor release

Cybercrime websites selling hacking tools to transnational organized crime groups seized

U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas (U.S. Department of Justice), January 30, 2025. That the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas announced the seizure of 39 domains and their associated servers used by the Pakistan-based Saim Raza / HeartSender network, in coordination with the Dutch National Police; the seizures occurred 29 January 2025..

Source type
Prosecutor release
Published
January 30, 2025
Research grade
P1
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Publisher
U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Texas (U.S. Department of Justice)
Published
January 30, 2025
Source type
Prosecutor release
Research grade
Source grade P1
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
What it supports
That the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas announced the seizure of 39 domains and their associated servers used by the Pakistan-based Saim Raza / HeartSender network, in coordination with the Dutch National Police; the seizures occurred 29 January 2025.
Dataset id
src_usao_sdtx_heartsender_domains_seized

Research notes

  • Read via a Wayback capture of 2026-06-10; justice.gov blocks plain HTML fetching.
  • Announcing officials: U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei, Supervisory Official Antoinette T. Bacon (DOJ Criminal Division), FBI SAC Douglas Williams.
  • Seizure date (Jan. 29, 2025) differs from the announcement date (Jan. 30, 2025).

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