Tag: Law Enforcement
Europol task force dismantles KillSec and holds a 16-year-old
Police seized KillSec's leak site and froze 110 terabytes of stolen data, detaining a 16-year-old they call its leader.
Dutch police hold 24-year-old over ShinyHunters extortion case
Dutch detectives are holding a 24-year-old Amsterdam man over the ShinyHunters extortion crew.
FBI seizes NightmareStresser domains in booter service crackdown
A service that rented out denial-of-service floods for three years is offline, but the market it served is not.
A Conti coder’s ransomware spree ends in a four-year sentence
Oleksii Lytvynenko, a lawyer who coded for the Conti ransomware crew, will spend four years in a US prison.
Sality’s peer-to-peer design carried the seed of its own takedown
US and European agencies sinkholed the 23-year-old Sality botnet by poisoning the peer lists its infected machines trust.
ATF confirms major breach after Qilin posts agency on leak site
The US firearms bureau says intruders hit a standalone system tied to its investigations.
INTERPOL’s Jackal IV sweep snares 58 in global fraud network takedown
An eight-month INTERPOL push against West African cybercrime ends with 58 arrests and 263 suspects identified.
Fraud network of 94 call centers dismantled across Ukraine
Ukraine's police shut 94 scam call centers and seized millions in cash and equipment.