RaidForums

U.S. authorities obtained judicial authorization to seize three RaidForums domains during Operation Tourniquet. The banner was observed in February 2022, and the Department of Justice publicly confirmed the domain seizures in April.

Operation

Operation Tourniquet

Agency

Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Secret Service, United Kingdom National Crime Agency, Europol

Category

hacking forum

Action

forum domain seizure

BEFORE

AFTER

BEFORE is shown only when a separately sourced public capture exists strictly before the seizure date. AFTER is the content-addressed upstream seizure-banner object.

These are archival labels, not live links. A seized, expired, or reassigned domain is a poor place to send readers without warning.

• raidforums.com
• raid.lol

seized.fyi states that its domain lists are not always complete. Count: 2.

U.S. authorities obtained judicial authorization to seize three RaidForums domains during Operation Tourniquet. The banner was observed in February 2022, and the Department of Justice publicly confirmed the domain seizures in April.

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OpenSpy object

Open preserved original

Upstream record

seized.fyi

Observed

2022-02-26

Media

image/jpeg

Resolution

1600×900

Bytes

420,334

SHA-256

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Upstream filename

010f85c835bc2188ca28ffa8716af1ac.png

Upstream metadata labeled this object image/png; byte-signature validation identified image/jpeg, which is the type served by OpenSpy.

1. United States Leads Seizure of One of the World's Largest Hacker Forums and Arrests Administrator U.S. Department of Justice · official law-enforcement announcement
2. RaidForums seizure banner seized.fyi · seizure-banner archive
3. raidforums.com pre-seizure capture Internet Archive · web archive capture