The national Dutch police (Politie) says that a state actor was likely behind the data breach it detected last week.
This blog post is a response to an investigative news report about a large-scale law-enforcement attack that managed to de-anonymize a user of an old version of the long-retired app Ricochet. This blog post aims to provide insight into what we know so far. Nothing that the Tor Project has learned about this incident suggests that Tor Browser was attacked or exploited. Tor users can continue to use Tor Browser to access the web securely and anonymously.
Australian police say they have infiltrated Ghost, an encrypted global communications app developed for criminals, leading to dozens of arrests.
Operation Kraken is a sign that organized criminals are moving away from larger encrypted phone companies to a decentralized collection of smaller players and consumer access apps that the rest of us use.
An investigation has been launched after a data breach led to the details of current and former Police Ombudsman staff members being accidently released.
The Police Ombudsman (PONI) has apologised for the data leak incident involving 160 current and former staff.
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.
LabHost enabled users to set up websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information – with 70,000 allegedly duped in the UK
German police seized the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace Crimemarket and arrested one of its operators.
The LockBit gang is relaunching its ransomware operation on a new infrastructure less than a week after law enforcement hacked their servers, and is threatening to focus more of their attacks on the government sector.
Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool to recover encrypted files for free, and seized over 200 crypto-wallets after hacking the cybercrime gang's servers in an international crackdown operation.
Law enforcement agencies from 11 countries have disrupted the notorious LockBit ransomware operation in a joint operation known as ''Operation Cronos.
German law enforcement takes down dark web giant "Kingdom Market," specializing in narcotics and malware sales to tens of thousands of users.
Operation HAECHI IV emphasizes the key role of INTERPOL in enabling police worldwide to address the growing complexity of cyber-enabled scams
The Spanish police have arrested 34 members of the cybercriminal group that is accused of having stolen data of over 4M individuals.
The Ragnar Locker ransomware operation's Tor negotiation and data leak sites were seized Thursday morning as part of an international law enforcement operation.
Le projet «Odyssée» consiste à remplacer trois applications obsolètes utilisées par les polices vaudoises.
L'un des projets informatiques les plus importants des polices vaudoises est la victime collatérale d’une importante fuite de données, survenue chez la société Xplain, son principal partenaire, a appris le pôle enquête de la RTS. La collaboration avec cette entreprise bernoise est aujourd’hui sur la sellette.
The UK's Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that crooks have got their mitts on some of its data after a third-party supplier responsible for ID badges was attacked.
According to the Manchester Evening News the stolen data included the names and pictures of police officers held by the supplier for use on thousands of ID badges.
