Tracking & Law Enforcement
Four people have been arrested in Poland and several websites associated with DDoS-for-hire services have been shut down.
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Cybercrime
We all know they’re watching us. But we don’t know who they are, nor why nor how they are doing it.
Cybercrime
Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers were prosecuted over a 2024 cyberattack targeting Transport for London (TfL).
Cybercrime
Prosecutors say 19-year-old Peter Stokes was a member of Scattered Spider, the hacking group linked to more than 100 network intrusions and over $100...
Cybercrime
NetNut rented access to millions of compromised devices, allowing cybercriminals and nation-state actors to mask their identities during attacks.
Fraud & Identity Theft
The FBI received roughly 860,000 complaints of malicious activity in 2024, with reported losses exceeding $16.6 billion.
Malware & Threats
Law enforcement agencies in multiple countries have announced the arrests of users of the malicious Smokeloader botnet.
Ransomware
Two men linked to Garantex are accused of facilitating multi-billion dollar money laundering and sanctions violations.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Several Venezuelans have been arrested and charged in the US in recent months for their role in ATM jackpotting schemes.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Amnesty International publishes technical details on zero-day vulnerabilities exploited by Cellebrite’s mobile forensic tools to spy on a Serbian student activist.
Cybercrime
A Singaporean man accused of being a hacker responsible for over 90 data leaks has been arrested in Thailand.
Cybercrime
After governments announced sanctions against the Zservers/XHost bulletproof hosting service, Dutch police took 127 servers offline.
Ransomware
Law enforcement agencies take down the 8Base ransomware group’s infrastructure, arrest four Russian operators.
Cybercrime
Spanish authorities have arrested an individual who allegedly hacked several high-profile organizations, including NATO and the US army.
Cybercrime
US and Dutch authorities seized 39 domains to disrupt a network of hacking and fraud marketplaces operated by Saim Raza.
Cybercrime
Two individuals have been arrested and one alleged admin has been charged in the takedown of the Nulled and Cracked cybercrime forums.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Several cybercrime websites have been seized in a law enforcement operation, including Nulled, Cracked, Sellix, and StarkRDP.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
After its CEO was arrested last summer, Telegram has been increasingly sharing user data at the request of authorities.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Vitalii Antonenko has been sentenced to 69 months in prison for hacking, but he is being released as he has been detained since 2019.
Cybercrime
The US announced the takedown of Rydox, a marketplace for stolen personal information, and the arrest of three administrators.
Malware & Threats
Germany’s cybersecurity agency BSI has sinkholed a botnet of 30,000 devices shipped with BadBox malware pre-installed.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Law enforcement agencies in 15 countries cooperated in taking down 27 websites selling DDoS-for-hire services.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
The US government announced charges, sanctions and a reward for Guan Tianfeng, a Chinese national accused of involvement in Sophos firewall hacks.
Cybercrime
Europol announced an operation targeting a cybercrime marketplace and phishing websites, including the arrests of two suspects.
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