National Crime Agency
LockBit Takedown by Brits — Time for ‘Operation Cronos’
Richi Jennings | | British, British intelligence, Infrastructure Takedown, Lockbit, LockBit ransomware, National Crime Agency, network takedown, Operation Cronos, SB Blogwatch, takedown, takedowns, U.K. National Crime Agency, uk, website takedown, website takedowns
RaaS nicked: 11-nation army led by UK eliminates ransomware-for-hire scrotes’ servers ...
Security Boulevard
Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites
Richi Jennings | | booter, booter services, booters and stressers, crime, ddos, National Crime Agency, National Cyber Crime Unit, NCA, Operation Power Off, Operation PowerOFF, SB Blogwatch, U.K. National Crime Agency, uk
UK National Crime Agency nips it in the bud: Aims to scare straight naughty DDoS kiddies ...
Security Boulevard
UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, booter, DDoS-for-hire, National Crime Agency, Operation Power Off, stresser, U.S. Department of Justice, Web Fraud 2.0
The United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally ...
RaidForums Gets Raided, Alleged Admin Arrested
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Diogo Santos Coelho, Europol, FBI, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Omnipotent, Operation Tourniquet, RaidForums seizure, SubVirt, t-mobile breach, U.S. Department of Justice, [email protected], Web Fraud 2.0
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said today it seized the website and user database for RaidForums, an extremely popular English-language cybercrime forum that sold access to more than 10 billion consumer ...
Eight men arrested following celebrity SIM-swapping attacks
Graham Cluley | | cybercrime, Cybercriminal, IT Security and Data Protection, National Crime Agency, SIM swap
British police have arrested eight men in connection with a series of SIM-swapping attacks which saw criminals hijack the social media accounts of well-known figures and their families. The UK’s National Crime ...
U.K. Arrest in ‘SMS Bandits’ Phishing Service
BrianKrebs | | National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, otp agency, Proofpoint, Sasha Angus, Scylla Intel, smishing, SMS phishing, SMSBandits
Authorities in the United Kingdom have arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly operating an online service for sending high-volume phishing campaigns via mobile text messages. The service, marketed in the underground under ...
Who is Tech Investor John Bernard?
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, Colette Davies, Igor Gubskyi, Ihor Hubskyi, Inside Knowledge, Iryna Davies, John Bernard, John Clifton Davies, [email protected], National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, The Private Office of John Bernard
John Bernard, the subject of a story here last week about a self-proclaimed millionaire investor who has bilked countless tech startups, appears to be a pseudonym for John Clifton Davies, a U.K ...
New Charges, Sentencing in Satori IoT Botnet Conspiracy
BrianKrebs | | Aaron Sterritt, Adam Alexander, Chickenmelon, DDoS-for-hire, Dingle, Drake, DYN DDoS, FBI, Fbot, IoT botnets, Judge Timothy Burgess, Kenneth Currin Schuchman, Masuta, Mirai, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Okiru, Operation Midmonth, Satori, TalkTalk hack, U.S. Justice Department, Vamp, Viktor, William Walton
The U.S. Justice Department today criminally charged a Canadian and a Northern Ireland man for allegedly conspiring to build multiple botnets that enslaved hundreds of thousands of routers and other Internet of ...
UK Ad Campaign Seeks to Deter Cybercrime
BrianKrebs | | booter, Cybersecurity Challenge, David Cox, DDoS-for-hire, ddos-for-hire services, google, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Pathways to Cyber Crime, Richard Clayton, stresser, University of Cambridge Cybercrime Center
The United Kingdom's anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. The ad ...
Courts Hand Down Hard Jail Time for DDoS
BrianKrebs | | bbc, Cellcom, Daniel Kaye, ddos, DDoS-for-hire, GovRAT, Haaretz, Lonestar, Martin Gottesfeld, Mirai, National Crime Agency, Ne'er-Do-Well News
Seldom do people responsible for launching crippling cyberattacks face justice, but increasingly courts around the world are making examples of the few who do get busted for such crimes. On Friday, a ...