A system designed to guarantee anonymity for crime witnesses has suffered a catastrophic data leak. Specifically, Canadian non-profit Toronto Crime Stoppers suspended operations on October 21 following a major platform compromise. The incident compromised...
A Ransomware Gang With a Teenage Boss Even the extortion business turns out to have surprisingly young leadership. The international Operation KillSwitch has crippled the infrastructure of KillSec. Investigators believe the group’s main operator...
Ukrainian law enforcement agencies dismantled a sophisticated network of fraudulent cryptocurrency platforms in Kyiv. These illicit operations systematically siphoned assets from users spanning more than twenty nations. Investigators have definitively identified sixty-two victims thus...
A comprehensive database associated with BreachForums—one of the most notorious clearinghouses for exfiltrated data and illicit network access—has been leaked online, compromising the credentials of nearly 324,000 accounts. The platform has survived numerous incarnations,...
A scheme is gaining momentum worldwide in which doxers impersonate police officers and use so-called “emergency requests” to coerce major companies into disclosing private personal data within minutes. On September 4, for example, an...
Researcher ZachXBT has stated that a British national implicated in the major $243 million cryptocurrency breach involving lender Genesis may have been detained in Dubai. According to him, the individual in question is known...
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...
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....
By the close of 2023, it had become evident that the largest coordinated crackdown to date on DDoS-for-Hire services produced a paradoxical outcome. Researchers, presenting their findings at USENIX Security 2025, traced the market’s...
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the seizure of more than $2.8 million in cryptocurrency from Yanis Alexandrovich Antroppenko, who stands accused of computer fraud and money laundering. Antroppenko is linked to the...
A former moderator of the dark web forum XSS, known by the alias Rehub, has launched his own platform under the name Rehubcom. This move coincides with the arrest of the XSS administrator in...
U.S. authorities have disclosed the details of a July operation against the BlackSuit ransomware syndicate, a coordinated strike that dismantled the group’s infrastructure and seized its digital assets. On July 24, in an internationally...
