Brooklyn DA takes down 241 domains tied to global crypto investment scam network

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has knocked a global crypto scam operation offline. The network allegedly cost Americans tens of millions of dollars. On October 14, 2026, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced that his office had disrupted 241 fraudulent domains and 112 cloud servers tied to a multinational crypto investment fraud. A county prosecutor going after infrastructure spread across two continents is not the usual job description. Inside the takedown The enforcement actions happened the week before Gonzalez went public. The office’s Virtual Currency Unit, known as the VCU, carried out the operation. The targeted infrastructure sat in Eastern Europe and the United States. Investigators worked alongside the FBI’s New York field office. The action has been described as one of the largest cyber enforcement efforts ever carried out by a local prosecutor’s office. The case grew out of an investigation spanning roughly three years. No arrests were announced as part of this operation. No suspects were named either. How the scam allegedly worked The scheme specifically targeted Russian-speaking individuals. It began with Russian-language advertisements on Facebo...