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Today, the Hive ransomware Tor payment and data leak sites were seized as part of an international law enforcement operation involving the US Department of Justice, FBI, Secret Service, Europol, and Germany's BKA and Polizei. The seizure notice on the Tor sites also lists a wide range of other countries involved in the law enforcement operation, including Canda, France, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Cybercriminals are scamming each other out of millions of dollars and use arbitration to settle disputes about the scams, according to Sophos. Despite this resolution process provoking occasional mayhem among the "Plaintiffs and defendants," with some accused criminals either going dark and not showing up, or calling the complainants themselves "Rippers," the practice of scammers scamming scammers is lucrative.

One answer for law enforcement agencies is to switch from on-premises systems to those that are cloud-native. The team overseeing an on-prem server at a local law enforcement agency must be concerned about a seemingly endless list of threats, weaknesses and vulnerabilities, ranging from floods to temperature variations and malware to denial of service attacks.

Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 companies worldwide, has registered an increase in malicious activity targeting law enforcement agencies at the beginning of Q2 2022. This Help Net Security video highlights how cyber attacks affect law enforcement agencies worldwide.

Resecurity, a Los Angeles-based cybersecurity company protecting Fortune 500 companies worldwide, has registered an increase in malicious activity targeting law enforcement agencies at the beginning of Q2 2022. Threat actors are hacking email and other accounts which belong to law enforcement officers and their internal systems.

Australian Federal Police commissioner Reece Kershaw has accused un-named nations of helping organized criminals to use technology to commit and launder the proceeds of crime, and called for international collaboration to developer technologies that counter the threats that behaviour creates. Kershaw's remarks were made at a meeting of the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group, the forum in which members of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing pact - Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the UK and the USA - discuss policing and related matters.

An international law enforcement operation involving 11 countries has culminated in the takedown of a notorious mobile malware threat called FluBot. "This Android malware has been spreading aggressively through SMS, stealing passwords, online banking details and other sensitive information from infected smartphones across the world," Europol said in a statement.

Europol has announced the takedown of the FluBot operation, one of the largest and fastest-growing Android malware operations in existence. The malware operation's takedown resulted from a law enforcement operation involving eleven countries following a complex technical investigation to pinpoint FluBot's most critical infrastructure.

An international law enforcement operation involving 11 countries has disrupted the spreading of the FluBot Android malware, which spreads via SMS and MMS and steals sensitive information - passwords, online banking details, etc. The Dutch Police, who took control of the malware's infrastructure earlier in May, made the malware inactive.

Apple and Meta shared data with child hackers pretending to be law enforcement. It was revealed on March 30 that both Apple and Facebook parent company, Meta, were duped by child hackers impersonating law enforcement officers last year, according to a report from Bloomberg.