Cybercrime

International police operation, including Malta’s, bust global cyber gang accused of industrial-scale fraud

Law enforcement from 19 countries, including Malta, severely disrupted one of the world’s largest phishing-as-a-service platform, known as LabHost. This year-long operation, coordinated at the international level by Europol, resulted…

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Lockbit cybercrime gang says it is back online following global police bust

By James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) - Lockbit, the cybercrime gang that was knocked offline by a comprehensive international police operation earlier this month, says it has restored its servers and…

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Italy government proposes tougher jail terms for cybercriminals

Italy's government is set to propose tougher jail terms for cybercrime and stricter disclosure rules for public bodies that come under attack from hackers, according to a draft law seen…

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Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says

Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding mechanism, a senior White House…

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‘Operation Cookie Monster’: International police action seizes dark web market

By Michael Holden, James Pearson and Christopher Bing WASHINGTON/LONDON, (Reuters) - International law enforcement agencies have seized a sprawling dark web marketplace popular with cybercriminals, Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA)…

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Australia to consider banning paying of ransoms to cyber criminals

SYDNEY, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Australia's Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil on Sunday said the government would consider making illegal the paying of ransoms to cyber hackers, following recent cyber…

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Crypto money laundering rises 30% in 2021 -Chainalysis

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cybercriminals laundered $8.6 billion in cryptocurrencies last year, up 30% from 2020, according to a report from blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis released this week. Overall, cybercriminals…

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Cyber crime spreads in Australia as COVID-19 pushes more people online

Australia reported on Wednesday a 13% jump in cyber crime in the past year, with about one incident in four targeting critical infrastructure and services as working from home during…

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Hackers exploit coronavirus lockdown with fake Netflix and Disney+ pages

More than 700 fake websites mimicking Netflix and Disney+ signup pages have been created seeking to harvest personal information from consumers during the coronavirus lockdown streaming boom. Netflix, which is…

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Eurojust tackles online fraud and hacking during pandemic

Eurojust is taking action against online fraud and computer hacking by criminal organisations abusing the current COVID 19-crisis. At the request of, for instance, Germany, France and the Czech Republic,…

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Cyber criminals threaten to hold hospitals to ransom – Interpol

As hospitals around the world struggle to handle the influx of COVID-19 patients, cyber criminals are threatening to exploit the crisis and hold them to ransom, according to an Interpol…

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Cybersecurity experts tackle coronavirus-related hacking

An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed on Wednesday to fight hacking related to the novel coronavirus. Called the COVID-19 CTI League, for cyber threat…

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MGM hack exposes personal data of 10.6 million guests

The personal information of 10.6 million guests who stayed at MGM Resorts hotels was hacked last summer. The hack was first reported by ZDNet on Wednesday, which said the stolen…

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International crackdown on RAT spyware which takes total control of victims’ PCs

A hacking tool that was able to give full remote control of a victim’s computer to cybercriminals has been taken down as a result of an international law enforcement operation…

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Police cybercrime raid in in former NATO bunker in Germany

A cybercrime data centre that was shut down by German authorities was housed inside a former NATO bunker in a sleepy riverside town. The police arrested 13 people between the…

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French police destroy virus that infected over 850,000 computers worldwide

A specialized team of French police dubbed has destroyed a virus know as, Retadup, that infected more than 850,000 computers worldwide. The network of infected computers, known as a botnet,…

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German police smash child pornography ring on darknet

German cybercrime experts brought down a child pornography platform on the darknet following months of intensive investigation, authorities in the German state of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania announced. German police were first…

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Financial records of nearly every Bulgarian exposed

A 20-year-old cybersecurity worker has been arrested in Bulgaria and charged with hacking the personal and financial records of millions of taxpayers in the country’s biggest ever data breach. Bulgaria’s…

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Bulgarian Cybercrime Department in action against IPTV criminal network

Under the supervision of the Bulgarian Supreme Prosecutor’s Office of Cassation, police officers from the Bulgarian Cybercrime Department from the General Directorate Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Interior…

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Microsoft helping to stop British losing millions of pounds a year to phishing attacks

Microsoft is supporting a UK police force in its bid try to stop people losing millions of pounds every year to phishing scams. City of London Police revealed that Brits…

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Multi-million euro cryptocurrency laundering service Bestmixer.io taken down

The Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD), in close cooperation with Europol and the authorities in Luxembourg, clamped down on one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing service…

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500 suspicious groups suspected of disseminating fake news detected on Facebook

The U.S.-based NGO Avaaz, which is active in the fight against cybercrime, said it has identified over 500 suspicious pages and groups on Facebook suspected of disseminating fake news…

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Computer system of Baltimore in the US locked down by hackers

Anonymous hackers have brought the US city of Baltimore to its knees by seizing control of government computers, demanding bitcoin in return for releasing their hold over the systems.…

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Hackers publish the personal details of hundreds of US law enforcement personnel

Hackers breached the web servers of multiple chapters of the FBI and published the names and addresses of hundreds of law enforcement personnel and thousands of other people online.…

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Personal data of German politicians leaked in ‘worst ever cyber attacks’

Hackers have leaked the personal data of hundreds of German politicians in what is being described as one of the country’s worst ever cyber attacks. MPs’ mobile numbers and addresses,…

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