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Europol on Tuesday said it shut down DarkMarket, the world's largest online marketplace for illicit goods, as part of an international operation involving Germany, Australia, Denmark, Moldova, Ukraine, the U.K.'s National Crime Agency, and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The illegal internet market specialized in the sales of drugs, counterfeit money, stolen or forged credit card information, anonymous SIM cards, and off-the-shelf malware.

Europol on Tuesday announced the takedown of DarkMarket, which according to the law enforcement agency is "The world's largest illegal marketplace on the dark web." DarkMarket served as a marketplace for cybercriminals to buy and sell drugs, counterfeit money, stolen or counterfeit credit card data, anonymous SIM cards and malware.

A German-led police operation has taken down the "World's largest" darknet marketplace, whose Australian alleged operator used it to facilitate the sale of drugs, stolen credit card data and malware, prosecutors said Tuesday. Police in the northern city of Oldenburg "Were able to arrest the alleged operator of the suspected world's largest illegal marketplace on the darknet, the DarkMarket, at the weekend," prosecutors said in a statement.

UJET announced its integration with Oracle Cloud CX Service and its availability on Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a centralized repository of enterprise applications offered by Oracle and Oracle partners.

The operators of Joker's Stash operate several versions of the platform, including Blockchain proxy server domains -. The actors behind Joker's Stash took to Russian-language carding forum Club2CRD stating that no card dumps were stored on the servers and transition plans were already underway to move the content hosted on the busted site to a new blockchain version of the portal.

HackerOne announced that it is making its debut in AWS Marketplace. Amazon Web Services customers can now find and purchase services from HackerOne in AWS Marketplace, a curated digital catalog of software, data, and services that run on AWS. HackerOne is one of the first comprehensive security solutions providers to quote and contract services in AWS Marketplace.

Exoprise announced the availability of its CloudReady solution in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The solution available in the Azure Marketplace offers two plans.

ACI Worldwide announced that its ACI Fraud Management solution is now available as a fully certified private offering via the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. ACI Fraud Management delivers enterprise fraud management capabilities, including advanced machine learning, predictive analytics and expertly defined rules, to help banks and intermediaries identify and mitigate financial fraud and help reduce the compliance burden in all forms.

Checkmarx announced major milestones in its relationship with Amazon Web Services, bringing its software security solutions to AWS Marketplace and earning AWS DevOps Competency status. With these moves, Checkmarx is delivering greater simplicity, flexibility, and confidence to customers looking to deploy application security testing solutions into their AWS CI/CD pipelines.

Researchers have discovered a raft of malicious gaming apps on Google Play that come loaded with adware, signaling that the tech giant continues to struggle with keeping bad apps off its online marketplace. Among these endeavors include stronger vetting mechanisms-which resulted in more than 790,000 apps that violate Google's policies for app submission stopped last year before they were ever published-as well as an alliance with three endpoint security firms to help stop malicious apps before they get to Google Play.