Europol
Europol: “The Hidden Internet Is No Longer Hidden, and Your Anonymous Activity is Not Anonymous”
Europol this week has announced the arrest of 179 vendors of illicit goods on the dark web, in a coordinated operation known as DisrupTor. According to the press release, operation DisrupTor follows ...
Belarus Authorities Arrest GandCrab Ransomware Operator
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus has announced the arrest of a 31-year-old man who served as an affiliate in the infamous GandCrab ransomware-as-a-service program. “Office ‘K’ of the Ministry of ...
Bitdefender Accounts for 12% of the $632 Million Stopped by No More Ransom in Four Years
The No More Ransom decryption tool repository has so far registered over 4.2 million visitors from 188 countries. The repository has helped save an estimated $632 million for ransomware victims worldwide, with ...
EU’s Law Enforcement Agency Launches Center for Financial and Economic Crime
On June 5, Europol announced the launch of the European Financial and Economic Crime Centre (EFECC), designed to reinforce and strengthen support for European Union States in the struggle to combat economic ...
Europol and Singapore Police arrest suspect behind €6 million Coronavirus money laundering scheme
As the cybercrime landscape continues to expand amid the Coronavirus pandemic, governments around the world have joined forces to fight the rising criminal activity. In a press release from April 6, Europol ...
Europol Arrests SIM Swappers in Spain, Austria and Romania
Police across Europe have been ramping up operations against two new SIM swapping operations, resulting in the arrest of 26 individuals accused of stealing more than $3 million from unsuspecting victims. In ...
GozNym cyberattackers sentenced in Pittsburgh and Tbilisi, Georgia
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the sentencing of three members of the network behind the GozNym cyberattacks on U.S. entities resulting in the theft of $100 million. Krasimir Nikolov, 47, ...
Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace
The U.S. Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network ...
250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action
More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to ...
User of the world’s biggest DDoS-for-hire website? Police say they’re coming after you
When police shut down the notorious website webstresser.org last year and arrested its administrators, a clear message was sent to the site’s 151,000 users: you’re next. Until its takedown, webstresser.org was believed ...
