The National Cyber-Forensics & Training Alliance or NCFTA established in 2002 in

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is an American non-profit corporation focused on identifying, mitigating, and neutralizing

cyber crime A cybercrime is a crime that involves a computer or a computer network.Moore, R. (2005) "Cyber crime: Investigating High-Technology Computer Crime," Cleveland, Mississippi: Anderson Publishing. The computer may have been used in committing th ...

threats through strategic alliances and partnerships with subject matter experts (SME) in the public, private, and academic sectors. The organisation has been involved in many high-profile operations such as take down of the

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site

DarkMarket DarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum created by Renukanth Subramaniam in London that was shut down in 2008 after FBI agent J. Keith Mularski infiltrated it using the alias Master Splyntr, leading to more than 60 arrests w ...

in 2008 and the hacker forum

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in 2015.

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