Five Romanians arrested in Cerber and CTP-Locker ransomware bust
The law catches up with affiliates in one of the biggest ransomware-as-a-service operation, but the ransomware's developer remains at large.
The law catches up with affiliates in one of the biggest ransomware-as-a-service operation, but the ransomware's developer remains at large.
Another 159 money mules arrested, nearly all moving cybercrime proceeds
Ransomware eclipses most other cyber threats, according to Europol.
European law enforcement and global tech firms have joined forces to help victims fight the crypto-ransomware scourge.
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IDG News Service staff | 23 Jun | Read more
Police in several European countries arrested 49 suspected members of a gang they say broke into corporate email accounts, using them to divert payments from business customers.
Lucian Constantin | 10 Jun | Read more
Europol, in collaboration with Dutch authorities, the U.S. FBI and private security companies, have seized the domain names used to control a botnet called Beebone.
Lucian Constantin | 09 Apr | Read more
British Airways recently acknowledged that they suffered a security breach impacting their frequent flyer program. This is yet another security breach to impacted loyalty program systems. Earlier this year both American Airlines and United Airlines suffered security breaches where user accounts were compromised by criminals using stolen account credentials.
Brian Honan | 01 Apr | Read more
European law enforcement agencies seized command-and-control servers used by Ramnit, a malware program that steals online banking credentials, FTP passwords, session cookies and personal files from victims.
Lucian Constantin | 26 Feb | Read more
A global police crackdown co-ordinated by Interpol has seen the arrest of 118 people accused of using stolen or fake debit and credit cards to buy airplane tickets.
John E Dunn | 03 Dec | Read more
Police in several European countries including the UK have arrested sixteen people in connection with the use of Remote Access Trojans (RATs) to steal financial data or use webcams for surveillance, the National Crime Agency (NCA) has reported.
John E Dunn | 22 Nov | Read more
The Tor Project hopes to discover exactly how law enforcement uncovered ‘dark net’ sites like Silk Road 2.0 that should have remained cloaked by The Onion Router (Tor) network.
Following yesterday’s take down of online drugs bazaar Silk Road 2.0, European authorities revealed a much wider effort was underway that targeted over 400 dark net sites.
As if tackling the malware economy wasn't already hard enough, police forces face a massive task keeping tabs on the ‘darknet' of anonymisation services that are being used by criminals to hide themselves, Europol's latest Internet Organised Crime Assessment (iOCTA) has argued.
John E. Dunn | 30 Sep | Read more
Europol launched a cybercrime task force Monday to fight online crime in the EU and other countries.
Loek Essers | 02 Sep | Read more