The South Korean police have uncovered an organized extortion ring that stole the personal data of massage parlor clients through fake mobile applications and blackmailed them with threats to release fabricated “compromising” videos. The...
In one of Vilnius’s districts, Lithuanian police carried out a large-scale operation to dismantle a bot farm operating on a network of so-called SIM boxes. The seized equipment indicates that the resources were used...
European law enforcement agencies executed a sweeping operation, codenamed SIMCARTEL, successfully dismantling an international criminal infrastructure that supplied virtual telephone numbers to fraudsters. According to Europol, this illicit service was instrumental in perpetrating over...
Amid China’s long-standing campaign against cross-border fraud, authorities have delivered a verdict in one of the most high-profile criminal cases in recent years. The case centers on a vast criminal network operating in northern...
On September 29, the Intermediate People’s Court of Wenzhou delivered a verdict in the high-profile case of the so-called “Min Clan,” whose operations for years had been entwined with armed militias and vast criminal...
European law enforcement authorities, with the support of Eurojust and Europol, have carried out a major operation against a vast cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme that had been operating for several years across 23 countries....
The United Nations has issued a warning about a new trend in the operations of international criminal networks. According to a report by the UNODC, evidence of fraudulent centers has been uncovered in the...
Experts at Truesec have reported a large-scale malicious campaign in which attackers promoted a fake PDF-editing application, AppSuite PDF Editor, through Google Ads. Beneath its veneer of legitimacy lurked the TamperedChef infostealer, capable of...
The FBI and Dutch police have conducted a joint operation that shut down VerifTools, a major online marketplace specializing in the sale of forged documents. The servers supporting the platform were seized in Amsterdam,...
A massive cryptocurrency theft has once again revealed how vulnerable users remain to the manipulations of social engineering. On August 19, an anonymous Bitcoin holder was stripped of 783 BTC — roughly $89 million...