Coverage tagged "Law enforcement".
Nearly 50 suspects have been arrested in an international operation targeting a drug trafficking network with Western Balkan members, linked to killings, kidnappings and grenade attacks across Europe.
The co-creator of Empire Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces before its shutdown, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for facilitating $430 million in illegal transactions from 2018…
BUSAN, Oct. 7 (Yonhap) -- A police officer in Seoul has been indicted for using artificial intelligence (AI) to create and spread deepfake videos of people he knew, prosecutors said Wednesday. The…
Jonathan Greig reports: The alleged mastermind behind a strain of malware used to empty ATMs of millions of dollars appeared in court for the first time after being apprehended by federal…
Sergiu Gatlan has an update on a case previously noted on this site. A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison…
Aguirre was added to the FBI’s “Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list in March, becoming the first cybercriminal added to the list.
Natalie Dreier reports: A Florida man who calls himself a “cybersecurity engineer” on TikTok and Twitch was arrested after police reopened an investigation closed earlier this year. Mark Asea was…
Report Fraud says cybercrime revenue stemming from account takeover increased 417% annually
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in New Jersey was sentenced to 32 months in prison for locking thousands of devices on his employer's network in a…
Saif al-Din Khader is cooperating with the FBI, reports said, as the bureau responds to a massive breach that exposed employee data.
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the arrest of the alleged developer of Ploutus malware, used to steal millions of dollars in ATM jackpotting attacks across the United States.
A suspected ShinyHunters member known as Rey has been detained in Jordan and is reportedly helping the FBI track down the rest of the group. Reuters reports that Jordanian authorities detained Saif…
Known as Rey, the suspect is reportedly helping the FBI identify and locate other members of the extortion group.
The Ghaziabad crime branch on Friday arrested four people for allegedly running an extortion racket and collecting around ₹6.5 crore from 130 "hired" bank accounts, police said. According to the…
Investigators have disrupted the operations of ransomware group KillSec and arrested several key suspects
Law enforcement from multiple countries collaborated to disrupt a cybercrime operation that has claimed some 500 victims worldwide in the past two years.
Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on…
European police said raids against the KillSec ransomware-as-a-service operation included the arrest of a high-profile teen suspect.
An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation KillSwitch" seized the KillSec ransomware gang's data leak site and servers, led to three arrests, and identified a 16-year-old as the…
Police took control of KillSec’s leak site and secured at least 110 terabytes of data stolen from victims.
