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An international law enforcement operation has taken down AVCheck, a service used by cybercriminals to test whether their malware is detected by commercial antivirus software before deploying it in the wild.

The service’s official domain at avcheck.net now displays a seizure banner with the crests of the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, and the Dutch police (Politie).

According to an announcement on the Politie website, AVCheck was one of the largest counter antivirus (CAV) services internationally, which helped cybercriminals assess the stealthiness and evasion of their malware.