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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."
A coordinated law enforcement operation codenamed MORPHEUS has felled close to 600 servers that were used by cybercriminal groups and were part of an attack infrastructure associated with the...
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The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has announced the extradition of two men from Malaysia for their alleged involvement in a mobile malware campaign targeting citizens in the country since June...
The Cyber Police of Ukraine has announced the arrest of a local man who is suspected to have offered their services to LockBit and Conti ransomware groups. The unnamed 28-year-old native of the...
The Ukraine cyber police have arrested a 28-year-old Russian man in Kyiv for working with Conti and LockBit ransomware operations to make their malware undetectable by antivirus software and conducting at least one attack himself. The Ukrainian police reported that the arrested individual was a specialist in developing custom crypters for packing the ransomware payloads into what appeared as safe files, making them FUD to evade detection by the popular antivirus products.
Spanish police have dismantled a network of illegal media content distribution that, since the start of its operations in 2015, has made over $5,700,000. Upon investigating the report, the police discovered that the owners of these sites were behind a large-scale IPTV operation that provided roughly 14,000 subscribers illegal access to 130 international TV channels and thousands of films and series.
An international law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Endgame' has seized over 100 servers worldwide used by multiple major malware loader operations, including IcedID, Pikabot, Trickbot, Bumblebee, Smokeloader, and SystemBC. The action, which occurred between May 27 and 29, 2024, involved 16 location searches across Europe and led to the arrest of four individuals, one in Armenia and three in Ukraine. The police have identified eight fugitives linked to the malware operations, who will be added to Europol's 'Most Wanted' list later today.
An international law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Endgame' has seized over 100 servers worldwide used by multiple major malware loader operations, including IcedID, Pikabot, Trickbot, Bumblebee, Smokeloader, and SystemBC. The action, which occurred between May 27 and 29, 2024, involved 16 location searches across Europe and led to the arrest of four individuals, one in Armenia and three in Ukraine. The police have identified eight fugitives linked to the malware operations, who will be added to Europol's 'Most Wanted' list later today.