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The Dutch police arrested a 39-year-old man on suspicions of laundering tens of millions of euros worth of cryptocurrency stolen in phishing attacks. The arrest occurred in the early morning of September 6, 2022, with the police seizing devices and "Data carriers" to aid the ongoing investigations.
Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent. The Amazon company responded to an inquiry from US Senator Ed Markey, confirming that there have been 11 cases in 2022 where Ring complied with police "Emergency" requests.
The report, titled Technology-facilitated abuse: National survey of Australian adults' experiences [PDF], used a sample of 4,562 subjects and found that approximately one in three TFA victimization experiences occurred "In a current or former intimate partner relationship." Australians with a disability, the LGBTQ+ community, and indigenous Australians were more likely to have experienced TFA than other groups. "We have no constraints within the company which precludes anyone from choosing what they want to do and we've had extensive discussions and meetings with the appropriate authorities," said the CEO. Labor rights organization Nascent Information Technology Employees Senate told The Register Parekh's comments were "Misleading."
Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of two individuals in connection with a cyberattack on the country's radioactivity alert network, which took place between March and June 2021. The act of sabotage is said to have disabled more than one-third of the sensors that are maintained by the Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Emergencies and used to monitor excessive radiation levels across the country.
Senior execs from Alibaba Cloud were summoned to discuss the data leak that saw information pertaining to a billion Chinese citizens sold on the dark web, according to Nikkei and The Wall Street Journal. The Shanghai Police leak is believed to be the biggest data breach ever.
The new proposal-championed by Mayor London Breed after November's wild weekend of orchestrated burglaries and theft in the San Francisco Bay Area-would authorize the police department to use non-city-owned security cameras and camera networks to live monitor "Significant events with public safety concerns" and ongoing felony or misdemeanor violations. Currently, the police can only request historical footage from private cameras related to specific times and locations, rather than blanket monitoring.
Details have emerged on how more than a billion personal records were stolen in China and put up for sale on the dark web, and it all boils down to a unprotected online dashboard that left the data open to anyone who could find it. The data collection included names, addresses, birthplaces, national ID numbers, cellphone numbers, and details of any related police records.
Members of a phishing gang behind millions of euros in losses were arrested today following a law enforcement operation coordinated by the Europol. "A cross-border operation, supported by Europol and involving the Belgian Police and the Dutch Police, resulted in the dismantling of an organised crime group involved in phishing, fraud, scams and money laundering," the Europol announced on Tuesday.
The Spanish police have announced the arrest of 13 people and the launch of investigations on another seven for their participation in a phishing ring that stole online bank credentials. The threat actors used phishing lures to trick their victims into believing they received an alert from their bank and proceeded to steal their account credentials.
San Francisco police have been using driverless cars for surveillance to assist in law enforcement investigations. A handful of tech giants have pledged more than $30 million to implement a plan to improve open-source and software supply chain security.