250 Webstresser Users to Face Legal Action

More than 250 customers of a popular and powerful online attack-for-hire service that was dismantled by authorities in 2018 are expected to face legal action for the damage they caused, according to Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency. In April 2018, investigators in the U.S., U....

Feds Dismantle Dark Web Credentials Market

Law-enforcement agencies across the world have taken aim at Dark Web denizens this week, with the takedown of a credentials marketplace as well as continued action against former users of the Webstresser.org DDoS-for-hire site. An international law-enforcement operation has dismantled the xDedic...

Europol Now Going After People Who Bought DDoS-for-Hire Services

If you were a buyer of any online DDoS-for-hire service, you might be in trouble. After taking down and arresting the operators of the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service last year, the authorities are now in hunt for customers who bought the service that helped cyber criminals launch millions ...

Police Shut Down xDedic – An Online Market for Cyber Criminals

In an international operation involving law enforcement authorities from the U.S. and several European countries, feds have shut down an online underground marketplace and arrested three suspects in Ukraine. Dubbed xDedic, the illegal online marketplace let cybercriminals buy, sell or rent out...

FBI Denies Service to 15 DDoS-for-Hire Sites, Charges Operators

The Justice Department has taken 15 internet domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services offline, and has filed charges against three defendants who allegedly ran them. DDoS for hire or DDoS-as-a-service operations make it simple for any layperson to carry out DDoS attacks, flooding targets wi...

235 members of dark web money counterfeiting gang busted

By Waqas 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...

‘LuminosityLink RAT’ Author Pleads Guilty

A 21-year-old Kentucky man has pleaded guilty to authoring and distributing a popular hacking tool called "LuminosityLink," a malware strain that security experts say was used by thousands of customers to gain unauthorized access to tens of thousands of computers across 78 countries worldwide. Th...

DDoS-for-Hire Service Webstresser Dismantled

Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching...

Europol Smacks Down World’s Largest DDoS-for-Hire Market

Criminal fantasy dream-site Webstresser.org, a DDoS-for-hire market believed to be behind at least 4 million cyberattacks around the world, has served up its last internet-paralyzing traffic tsunami. A multi-national investigation led by Europol has led to the arrest of the administrators of the...

Police Shut Down World's Biggest 'DDoS-for-Hire' Service–Admins Arrested

In a major hit against international cybercriminals, the Dutch police have taken down the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service that helped cyber criminals launch over 4 million attacks and arrested its administrators. An operation led by the UK's National Crime Agency NCA and the Dutch Police,...

Alleged Mastermind Behind Carbanak Crime Gang Arrested

The suspected mastermind behind the Carbanak criminal gang, which is notorious for stealing as much as $1 billion from more than 100 financial institutions in a string of attacks, has been apprehended, according to the Spanish National Police. According to the European Union Agency for Law...

ATM hacker behind $1 billion malware heists arrested in Spain

By Waqas In a joint operation, Europol along with the law enforcement authorities from Belarus, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ATM hacker behind $1 billion malware heists arrested in Spain...

Fighting Ransomware

No More Ransom is a central repository of keys and applications for ransomware, so people can recover their data without paying. It's not complete, of course, but is pretty good against older strains of ransomware. The site is a joint effort by Europol, the Dutch police, Kaspersky, and McAfee...

Romanian Police Arrest 5 People for Spreading CTB Locker and Cerber Ransomware

Romanian police have arrested five individuals suspected of infecting tens of thousands of computers across Europe and the United States in recent years by spreading two infamous ransomware families—Cerber and CTB Locker. Under Operation Bakovia—a major global police operation conducted by Europo...

Feds Shut Down 'Longest-Running' Andromeda Botnet

In a coordinated International cyber operation, Europol with the help of international law enforcement agencies has taken down what it called "one of the longest-running malware families in existence" known as Andromeda. Andromeda, also known as Win32/Gamarue, is an infamous HTTP-based modular...

Feds Seize Over 20,500 Domain Names For Selling Counterfeit Products

In a coordinated International cyber operation, law enforcement agencies have seized over 20,520 website domains for illegally selling counterfeit products, including luxury products, sportswear, electronics, pharmaceuticals and online piracy on e-commerce platforms and social networks...

Dark-Web Drug Dealer Arrested After He Travelled US for World Beard Championships

United States authorities arrested suspected dark web drug kingpin late last month while he was travelling from his base in France to the United States of America for this year’s annual World Beard and Mustache Championships. Gal Vallerius, a 38-year-old French national, was travelling to Austin,...

Exclusive: Dutch Cops on AlphaBay ‘Refugees’

Following today's breaking news about U.S. and international authorities taking down the competing Dark Web drug bazaars AlphaBay and Hansa Market, KrebsOnSecurity caught up with the Dutch investigators who took over Hansa on June 20, 2017. When U.S. authorities shuttered AlphaBay on July 5, poli...

After AlphaBay’s Demise, Customers Flocked to Dark Market Run by Dutch Police

Earlier this month, news broke that authorities had seized the Dark Web marketplace AlphaBay, an online black market that peddled everything from heroin to stolen identity and credit card data. But it wasn't until today, when the U.S. Justice Department held a press conference to detail the...

Feds Seize AlphaBay and Hansa Markets in Major Dark-Web Bust

It's finally confirmed — In a coordinated International operation, Europol along with FBI, DEA Drug Enforcement Agency and Dutch National Police have seized and taken down AlphaBay, one of the largest criminal marketplaces on the Dark Web. But not just AlphaBay, the law enforcement agencies have...