Four distributors of the encrypted communications service Sky ECC, used extensively by criminals, were arrested in Spain and the Netherlands.
The Spanish police have arrested a suspected hacker in Alicante for allegedly conducting 40 cyberattacks targeting critical public and private organizations, including the Guardia Civil, the Ministry of Defense, NATO, the US Army, and various universities.
An international law enforcement operation codenamed 'Operation Passionflower' has shut down MATRIX, an encrypted messaging platform used by cybercriminals to coordinate illegal activities while evading police.
The former head of Poland’s internal security agency Piotr Pogonowski was forced to appear in front of a parliamentary committee investigating the alleged abuse of Pegasus spyware in the country.
The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years.
Italian police have placed four people under house arrest including Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio, son of the late billionaire founder of Luxottica, as part of a probe into alleged illegal access to state databases, a source said on Saturday.
A lawyer for Leonardo Maria Del Vecchio said he was "eagerly awaiting the completion of preliminary investigations to be able to prove he has nothing to do with the events in question and that charges laid against him have no basis.
An international law enforcement operation led to the arrest of one of the three administrators of the dual dark web market 'Bohemia/Cannabia,' known for hosting ads for drug sales and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
Europol and law enforcement from nine countries successfully dismantled an encrypted communications platform called
U.K.'s National Crime Agency says it arrested a 17-year-old teenager who is suspected of being connected to the cyberattack on Transport for London, the city's public transportation agency.
Arrest warrants for Pavel and Nikolai Durov were issued months earlier than previously known.
Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.
The Spanish police have arrested 34 members of the cybercriminal group that is accused of having stolen data of over 4M individuals.
Automation features make LockBit one of the more destructive pieces of ransomware.
Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a dual Russian and Canadian national for his alleged participation in a global campaign to spread ransomware known as LockBit.
Mikhail Vasiliev, 33, of Bradford, Ontario, Canada, was taken into custody in late October by authorities in Ontario, officials at Interpol said. He is now in custody in Canada awaiting extradition to the US.
75 collars felt, $1.2m seized in bid to cut off crime network’s financial lifeline
The RaidForums hacker forum, used mainly for trading and selling stolen databases, has been shut down and its domain seized by U.S. law enforcement during Operation TOURNIQUET, an action coordinated by Europol that involved law enforcement agencies in several countries.
The actions of the relatively new group have led to an international police hunt.
