Security News
The national Dutch police (Politie) says that a state actor was likely behind the data breach it detected last week. [...]
Law enforcement authorities from 12 countries arrested four suspects linked to the LockBit ransomware gang, including a developer, a bulletproof hosting service administrator, and two people...
The Tor Project is attempting to assure users that the network is still safe after a recent investigative report warned that law enforcement from Germany and other countries are working together...
A joint law enforcement operation has dismantled an international criminal network that used the iServer automated phishing-as-a-service platform to unlock the stolen or lost mobile phones of...
4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy Four UK-based proponents of human rights and critics of Middle Eastern states today filed...
Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service Australia's Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged a...
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has announced the arrest of five Chinese nationals and one Singaporean man for their alleged involvement in illicit cyber activities in the country. The...
Two days is all it took for Interpol to recover more than $40 million worth of stolen funds in a recent business email compromise heist, the international cop shop said this week. Interpol was called in after an unidentified Singaporean commodity biz filed a police report on July 23 claiming it had been scammed out of $42.3 million four days earlier.
The French police and Europol are pushing out a "Disinfection solution" that automatically removes the PlugX malware from infected devices in France. The operation is conducted by the Center for the Fight Against Digital Crime of the National Gendarmerie with assistance by French cybersecurity firm Sekoia, which sinkholed a command and control server for a widely distributed PlugX variant last April.
DDoS-for-hire service DigitalStress was taken down on July 2 in a joint law enforcement operation led by the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency. The Police Service of Northern Ireland also arrested its owner this month, and NCA agents infiltrated the communication services used to plan distributed denial-of-service attacks, collecting data on DigitalStress's "Customers."