Who Got Arrested in the Raid on the XSS Crime Forum?
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Summary
On 22 July, European police agency Europol announced that a joint investigation by the Ukrainian authorities and French police had led to the arrest of the administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with 50,000 members.
Initial speculation online seems to point to the arrested individual being a pivotal figure in the crime forum scene known as Toha.
KrebsOnSecurity conducted a deep dive investigation into Toha, finding a connection with a previous administrator of a similar Russian-language cybercrime forum, as well as previous cybercrime activity.
There is speculation that Toha was not in fact the individual arrested, with the individual in custody in fact being a Russian national living in Kiev named Anton Medvedovskiy, who is one year younger than Toha and does not share the same surname as previous investigative journalists claimed.