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Cybercriminals are using a network of hired money mules in India using an Android-based application to orchestrate a massive money laundering scheme. The malicious application, called XHelper, is a “key tool for onboarding and managing these money mules,” CloudSEK researchers Sparsh Kulshrestha, Abhishek Mathew, and Santripti Bhujel said in a report. Details about the scam […]
The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Tuesday confirmed that it obtained LockBit’s source code as well as a wealth of intelligence pertaining to its activities and their affiliates as part of a dedicated task force called Operation Cronos. “Some of the data on LockBit’s systems belonged to victims who had paid a ransom to […]
Europol on Friday announced the takedown of the infrastructure associated with Ragnar Locker ransomware, alongside the arrest of a “key target” in France. “In an action carried out between 16 and 20 October, searches were conducted in Czechia, Spain, and Latvia,” the agency said. “The main perpetrator, suspected of being a developer of the Ragnar […]
Law enforcement authorities from Germany and Ukraine have targeted suspected core members of a cybercrime group that has been behind large-scale attacks using DoppelPaymer ransomware. The operation, which took place on February 28, 2023, was carried out with support from the Dutch National Police (Politie) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to […]
Europol on Tuesday announced the dismantling of an organized crime group that dabbled in phishing, fraud, scams, and money laundering activities. The cross-border operation, which involved law enforcement authorities from Belgium and the Netherlands, saw the arrests of nine individuals in the Dutch nation. The suspects are men between the ages of 25 and 36 […]
Europol has confirmed arresting a Romanian national for targeting an IT firm in the country. The U.S. and European law enforcement authorities collaborated to arrest a suspected ransomware affiliate member for targeting Romanian firms in an IT supply chain attack. The operation was led by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), and the Romanian National Police […]
The incident took place while the suspect was recording himself for a tutorial on how to bomb ATM (Automatic Teller Machines). In April 2021, the Dutch and German law enforcement authorities joined hands to create a joint investigation team (JIT) to take down an organized crime group known for targeting Automatic Teller Machines or ATMs. […]
Law enforcement authorities managed to seize millions in cryptocurrency and luxury vehicles owned by the ransomware gang. In an international coordinated operation, law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested two suspects in Ukraine accused of running a ransomware gang that was behind large-scale attacks on more than 100 companies around the world. The arrests were […]
According to Europol, most of the suspected members are Italian nationals, some of whom have links to mafia organizations. The Europol, European Union’s law enforcement agency, announced on Monday that they arrested 106 individuals and seized their assets over their involvement in high-profile cyber and physical crimes. The arrests were made in Italy and Spain. […]
US, Canada, and European authorities took part in the operation which ended up seizing cybercriminals’ access to and infrastructure of DoubleVPN. A collaborative effort between Europe, Canada, and US law enforcement authorities has served a big blow to threat actors. According to a press release from Europol, they have seized the web domains, customer logs, […]
In 2014 Europol, the European law enforcement agency, in collaboration with agencies from 18 EU member states, INTERPOL, the US National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center and Eurojust initiated a global operation against piracy websites dubbed ‘Operation In Our Sites X‘ (IOSX). It is a joint investigative effort to put an end to the […]
The Spanish authorities have stated that the legislation currently in existence in the European community is inadequate and insufficient to prevent the use of Bitcoin ATMs in order to launder money, as mentioned by digital forensics specialists. Various media report that the Spanish government has reached this conclusion after investigating the legal status of cryptocurrency […]
Authorities arrested six suspects including five males and one female in simultaneous raids carried out in a joint operation. The raids and subsequent arrests were carried out to trace $28 million worth of stolen Bitcoin. The raids were conducted as part of a 14-month long, large-scale, global police investigation involving European law enforcement agencies including […]
BestMixer.io was among the three largest cryptocurrency mixing services launched in May 2018. Europol in collaboration with the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigative Service (FIOD), Luxembourg has shut down a well-known and one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency tumblers BestMixer.io. The bitcoin transaction mixer was shut down officially on May 22. The operation against cryptocurrency […]
Arrests have been made in Israel, Europe, Brazil, and the United States. The popular dark web news and index website DeepDotWeb (DDW) has been seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Those visiting the website can see a message left by the FBI on its homepage stating that “This site has been seized.” The […]
The European Union Law Enforcement Cooperation Agency (Europol) recently announced the implementation of a series of joint efforts with U.S. and Canadian law enforcement agencies to stop the activities of buyers and sellers of illegal merchandise and digital material in dark web platforms, mentioned the ethical hacking training experts from the International Institute of Cyber […]
According to experts in ethical hacking training in India and the International Institute of Cyber Security (IICS), Dream Market, the most important dark web sales forum nowadays, will stop operating next April 30. The news has been released while members of the FBI, the DEA and Europol perform operations together against drug trafficking through platforms […]
The domain for xDedic has been seized as well. In a joint operation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and authorities from several European countries have successfully taken down xDedic, a notorious dark web marketplace known for selling stolen digital goods such as login credentials, identity cards, and hacked servers. The operation was carried out on January 24th […]
Over 200 members of a fraudulent scheme were arrested by European agencies The dark web has become a space of proliferation for all kinds of illicit activities; criminal associations engaged in drugs sale, malicious software distribution and children exploitation act freely over this platform. To counter the activities of these groups, law enforcement agencies across […]
The Dark Web has become a thriving hub of all sorts of criminal activities from selling illegal drugs to the distribution of ransomware and running child porn platforms. To tackle the situation, a wide-scale crackdown was launched by European law enforcement agencies throughout Europe coordinated by Europol and 13 countries. The operation was launched on November 19th in […]
In a large-scale joint operation called “Operation Power Off”, the Dutch Police and the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency alongside with Europol and several other law enforcement authorities have arrested the administrators of Webstresser, a cybercrime platform providing DDoS-for-hire service while its domain Webstresser.org has been seized. The arrested administrators were based in Canada, Croatia, Serbia, and […]