Cybercrime feud erupts on dark web as notorious group claims hijack of rival’s website

One of the world’s best-known cybercrime groups said on Sunday it had hijacked one of its chief rivals’ dark web site, bringing what it said was a long-simmering feud out into the open.

ShinyHunters, a digital extortion group known for aggressive data theft campaigns, said it broke into the dark web site of cybercrime gang cl0p on Friday after discovering a vulnerability in cl0p’s software and using it to establish wide-ranging control over the group’s infrastructure.

“We basically own them now,” ShinyHunters said in an online chat with Reuters.