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A VPN service used by many cybercriminals has been disrupted in a global operation that involved law enforcement agencies in Germany, the United States, the Netherlands, France and Switzerland. Europol reported on Tuesday that the operation targeted a service called Safe-Inet, and the U.S. Justice Department clarified that three associated domains have been seized, namely insorg.org, safe-inet.com and safe-inet.net.

Law enforcement agencies around the world in a coordinated effort took down and seized the infrastructure supporting Safe-Inet and Insorg VPN and proxy services known for catering to cybercriminal activity. In announcements made today, Europol and the U.S. Department of Justice say that these VPN services were "Used by some of the world's biggest cybercriminals."

The blockchain domains of Joker's Stash, a popular underground marketplace for stolen payment card data, have been seized by law enforcement. What the two law enforcement agencies apparently managed to do was to seize proxy servers that were used in connection with the Joker's Stash blockchain domains.

Europol and the European Commission have launched a new decryption platform that will help boost Europol's ability to gain access to information stored in encrypted media collected during criminal investigations. The new decryption platform operated by Europol's European Cybercrime Centre was developed in collaboration with the European Commission's Joint Research Centre science and knowledge service.

SS8 Networks announced that it has expanded its Intellego XT product to include scalable real-time metadata analysis, advanced metadata queries, that significantly increase data processing volumes and higher processing speeds. Used by law enforcement agencies, the "MetaHub" component of Intellego XT's Monitoring Center, ingests and analyzes metadata from a variety of sources for investigative purposes.

So far this year, the use of facial recognition by law enforcement has been successfully challenged by courts and legislatures on both sides of the Atlantic. Unconstrained use of facial recognition services by state and local government agencies poses broad social ramifications that should be considered and addressed.

Hundreds of thousands of files belonging to more than 200 law enforcement organizations across the United States have been leaked online after they were stolen by hackers from a web development company. The leak, dubbed BlueLeaks, includes information collected and generated by over 200 police departments, fusion centers, the FBI and other law enforcement organizations in various U.S. states.

Zoom's chief executive revealed on Tuesday that free users will not be offered end-to-end encryption as the company wants to assist the FBI and local law enforcement in their investigations. Zoom has promised to take action and it has already started implementing measures that would help it address security and privacy concerns.

SS8 Networks, a leader in Lawful Intercept and Monitoring Center platforms, announces the first Evolved Packet Core integration of their Lawful Intelligence platform on Amazon Web Services for Communication Service Providers and Law Enforcement Agencies. This SS8 Lawful Intelligence solution supported on AWS provides carrier-grade network integration with EPCs that can support millions of mobile subscribers while meeting high availability and scalability requirements.

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