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The Federal Police of Brazil and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted the Grandoreiro banking malware operation, which has been targeting Spanish-speaking countries with financial fraud since 2017. The operation was supported by ESET, Interpol, the National Police in Spain, and Caixa Bank, all providing critical data leading to identifying and arresting individuals controlling the malware's infrastructure.
An international law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation HAECHI IV' has led to the arrest of 3,500 suspects of various lower-tier cybercrimes and seized $300 million in illicit proceeds. 199 million of the seized amounts concern hard currency, and the remaining $101 million corresponds to the value of 367 digital/virtual assets, such as NFTs linked to cybercrime.
French authorities arrested a Russian national in Paris for allegedly helping the Hive ransomware gang with laundering their victims' ransom payments. "New arrest in the Hive ransomware affair: after the international search in January to dismantle this network of hackers constituting a serious threat, the Judicial Police arrested in Paris an individual suspected of having laundered money from these cyber attacks," the French National Police said.
He probably would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids Interpol's Biometric Hub - a recently activated tool that uses French identity and biometrics vendor Idemia's technology to match people's biometric data against the multinational policing org's global fingerprint and facial recognition databases. Interpol introduced the Biometric Hub - aka BioHub - in October, and it is now available to law enforcement in all 196 member countries.
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The Russian Federal Security Service arrested two individuals believed to have helped Ukrainian forces carry out cyberattacks to disrupt Russian critical infrastructure targets. Russia's security agency published a press release on Tuesday saying that its officers detained two hackers who either assisted or joined Ukraine's hackers in cyber operations.
The Spanish National Police have dismantled a cybercriminal organization that carried out a variety of computer scams to steal and monetize the data of over four million people. Law enforcement in the country conducted 16 targeted searches in Madrid, Malaga, Huelva, Alicante, and Murcia and arrested 34 members of the crime group.
Law enforcement agencies arrested a malware developer linked with the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang and seized the group's dark web sites in a joint international operation. Authorities from France, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Japan, Canada, and the United States were part of this international operation targeting the Ragnar Locker ransomware gang.
Nearly four weeks after the Police Service of Northern Ireland published data on 10,000 employees in a botched response to a Freedom of Information request, another two men, aged 21 and 22, have been released on bail after being arrested under the Terrorism Act. On August 8, it mistakenly published a spreadsheet with the details of every serving Northern Ireland police officer online in response to a Freedom of Information request at the beginning of August.
An Interpol-led operation arrested 14 suspects and identified 20,674 "Suspicious" networks spanning 25 African countries that international cops have linked to more than $40 million in cybercrime losses. Police in Nigeria arrested a suspect who allegedly defrauded a victim in Gambia, and police in Mauritius arrested two suspected money mules linked to messaging platform scams.