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Law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of an international criminal network that leveraged a phishing platform to unlock stolen or lost mobile phones. The phishing-as-a-service...
Europol and law enforcement from nine countries successfully dismantled an encrypted communications platform called "Ghost," which was used by organized crime such as drug trafficking and money...
Europol is proposing solutions to avoid challenges posed by privacy-enhancing technologies in Home Routing that hinder law enforcement's ability to intercept communications during criminal investigations. Home Routing is a system in telecommunication services that allows customers to route traffic through their home network even when traveling abroad. When privacy-enhancing technologies are enabled in Home Routing, data is encrypted at the service level and subscribers' devices exchange session-based keys with the provider in the home network.
Europol published a position paper today highlighting its concerns around SMS home routing - the technology that allows telcos to continue offering their services when customers visit another country. According to the cops, they pointed out that when roaming, a suspect in a criminal case who's using a SIM from another country will have all of their mobile communications processed through their home network.
Europol just announced that a week-long operation at the end of June dropped nearly 600 IP addresses that supported illegal copies of Cobalt Strike. "Used as a foothold, it has proven to be highly effective at providing a persistent backdoor to victims, facilitating intrusions of all forms. This disruption is to be welcomed, removing Cobalt Strike infrastructure used by criminals is always a good thing."
Europol coordinated a joint law enforcement action known as Operation Morpheus, which led to the takedown of almost 600 Cobalt Strike servers used by cybercriminals to infiltrate victims' networks. "Older, unlicensed versions of the Cobalt Strike red teaming tool were targeted during a week of action coordinated from Europol's headquarters between 24 and 28 June," said Europol.
Operation Endgame, announced by Europol yesterday, led to the seizure of 100 servers used in multiple malware operations, including IcedID, Pikabot, Trickbot, Bumblebee, Smokeloader, and SystemBC. The law enforcement crackdown also involved four arrests, one in Armenia and three in Ukraine. Yesterday, the Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany revealed the identities of eight cybercriminals of Russian descent, who are thought to have held central roles in the Smokeloader and Trickbot malware operations.
Europol on Thursday said it shut down the infrastructure associated with several malware loader operations such as IcedID, SystemBC, PikaBot, SmokeLoader, Bumblebee, and TrickBot as part of a...
Intelligence-sharing platform remains down for maintenance Europol is investigating a cybercriminal's claims that they stole confidential data from a number of the agency's sources.…
Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, confirmed that its Europol Platform for Experts portal was breached and is now investigating the incident after a threat actor claimed they stole For Official Use Only documents containing classified data."No operational information is processed on this EPE application. No core systems of Europol are affected and therefore, no operational data from Europol has been compromised."