Bluepurple Pulse: week ending April 9th

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Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading). Not everything makes it in, but the best bits do.

Operationally this week the usual tempo continues with nothing overly standout which says something of our time given the level of reporting and output in the below.

In the high-level this week:

• Criminal Marketplace Disrupted in International Cyber Operation - Since its inception in March 2018, Genesis Market has offered access to data stolen from over 1.5 million compromised computers around the world containing over 80 million account access credentials - the scale of the compromise is as impressive as the scale of law enforcement response.

• A year of United Nations cybercrime negotiations - Consensus will be difficult, as will be concluding the negotiations by the deadline. Tough decisions are ahead as the new cybercrime treaty aspires for universal adoption - probably the understatement of our time when you consider we have certain nationa…