FBI Cracks Down on Dark Web Marketplace Managed by Russian and Kazakh Nationals
Due to their alleged role in running WWH Club, a dark web marketplace that specialized in the sale of private and financial information, two men have been charged in the United States.
The charges against Alex Khodyrev, a 35-year-old Kazakh national, and Pavel Kublitskii, a 37-year-old Russian national, include conspiracy to commit wire fraud and access device fraud.
Between 2014 and 2024, Khodyrev and Kublitskii served as the primary administrators of WWH Club (wwh-club[.]ws) and its sister sites, wwh-club[.]net, center-club[.]pw, opencard[.]pw, and skynetzone[.]org. These sites served as forums, dark web marketplaces, and training grounds for cybercrime.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States launched an investigation in July 2020 and found that WWH Club...