The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker's Stash, a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The…
A key member of the notorious hacker group SiegedSec was arrested today by federal authorities. The arrest came just hours after the hacker published a provocative manifesto titled “The Conscience of a Catgirl.” The document offers sharp criticisms of governments, corporations, and the state of modern surveillance, right before the hacker was taken into custody.
Investigators reported 483 000 victims worldwide, who had attempted to regain access to their phones and been phished in the process. The victims are mainly Spanish-speaking nationals from European, North American and South American countries.The successful operation took place thanks to international cooperation between law enforcement and judiciary authorities from Spain, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.The action week took...
The Toronto Police Service is making the public aware of 10 arrests made and 108 charges laid in a major SIM swap fraud investigation dubbed Project Disrupt.
On Thursday, August 1, 2024, Detective David Coffey, from the Financial Crimes Unit, and Detective Constable Michael Gow, from the Coordinated Cyber Center (C3), held a news conference about Project Disrupt.
The U.K.'s National Crime Agency said it disrupted DigitalStress, a DDoS-for-hire operation that has been “responsible for tens of thousands of attacks every week across the globe.”
Spanish Police arrested three individuals on July 20, 2024, who are suspected of participating in a series of cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure and government institutions in Spain and other NATO countries.
The detainees are believed to be affiliated with the hacktivist group NoName057(16), known for its pro-Russian ideology and launching DDoS attacks against entities supporting Ukraine in the ongoing conflict.
Police seize millions in illegal assets, including cryptocurrencies and luxury items
Spanish newspaper Murcia Today reported that a British man was detained at Palma Airport as he prepared to board a flight to Italy.
Les suspects, âgés de 21, 22 et 23 ans, ont été arrêtés dimanche. L'attaque qu'ils sont soupçonnés d'avoir menée concerne potentiellement les données de 43 millions d'inscrits.
Two teenagers, ages 18 and 17, were found guilty of hacking into major corporations. The cases involved Uber, Nvidia and more.
For a decade, a group called Big Pipes has worked behind the scenes with the FBI to target the worst cybercriminal “booter” services plaguing the internet.
WHEN THE FBI announced the takedown of 13 cyberattack-for-hire services yesterday, it may have seemed like just another day in law enforcement’s cat-and-mouse game with a criminal industry that has long plagued the internet’s infrastructure, bombarding victims with relentless waves of junk internet traffic to knock them offline. In fact, it was the latest win for a discreet group of detectives that has quietly worked behind the scenes for nearly a decade with the goal of ending that plague for good.
