Europol Seizes First VPN Used by Ransomware Gangs, Arrests Administrator

Europol has seized First VPN, a service used by ransomware gangs, arrested its administrator and gained access to data linked to thousands of users...

Finnish Authorities Detain Crew After Undersea Internet Cable Severed

After a sudden internet cable break between Finland and Estonia, authorities have seized the cargo ship Fitburg. With two crew members arrested and sanctioned steel found on board, investigators are now probing if this was an accident or a deliberate act of hybrid warfare...

Operation Endgame Hits Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, Elysium Malware, seize 1025 servers

Europol-led Operation Endgame seizes 1,025 servers and arrests a key suspect in Greece, disrupting three major global malware and hacking tools, including Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT and Elysium botnet...

Eurojust Arrests 5 in €100M Cryptocurrency Investment Fraud Spanning 23 Countries

Law enforcement authorities in Europe have arrested five suspects in connection with an "elaborate" online investment fraud scheme that stole more than €100 million $118 million from over 100 victims in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. According to Eurojust, the coordinated action saw searches ...

Police Shut Down 100 Servers Tied to Russian NoName057(16), Arrest 2

In an operation called Eastwood, authorities arrested two people and shut down more than 100 servers linked to the Russian group NoName05716...

Europol Dismantles $540 Million Cryptocurrency Fraud Network, Arrests Five Suspects

Europol on Monday announced the takedown of a cryptocurrency investment fraud ring that laundered €460 million $540 million from more than 5,000 victims across the world. The international effort, codenamed Operation Borrelli, was carried out by the Spanish Guardia Civil, along with support from...

INTERPOL Dismantles 20,000+ Malicious IPs Linked to 69 Malware Variants in Operation Secure

INTERPOL on Wednesday announced the dismantling of more than 20,000 malicious IP addresses or domains that have been linked to 69 information-stealing malware variants. The joint action, codenamed Operation Secure, took place between January and April 2025, and involved law enforcement agencies...

Europol Dismantles Kidflix With 72,000 CSAM Videos Seized in Major Operation

In one of the largest coordinated law enforcement operations, authorities have dismantled Kidflix, a streaming platform that offered child sexual abuse material CSAM. "A total of 1.8 million users worldwide logged on to the platform between April 2022 and March 2025," Europol said in a statement...

Europol Dismantles 27 DDoS Attack Platforms Across 15 Nations; Admins Arrested

A global law enforcement operation has failed 27 stresser services that were used to conduct distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks and took them offline as part of a multi-year international exercise called PowerOFF. The effort, coordinated by Europol and involving 15 countries, dismantled...

Europol takes down criminal data hub Manson Market in busy month for law enforcement

A coordinated action between several European law enforcement agencies shut down an online marketplace called Manson Market that sold stolen data to any interested cybercriminal. What made this market attractive for cybercriminals was that they could buy data sorted by region and account balance...

FBI-Wanted Hacker Behind Global Ransomware Attacks Arrested in Russia

Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev aka Wazawaka has been wanted by the FBI since 2023...

German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested

German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat.cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. "The platform made such DDoS attacks accessible to a wide range of users, even those...

Man Faces 20 Years in Prison for First-Ever AI Music Streaming Scam

A North Carolina man has been arrested in the first criminal case involving AI-generated music streaming fraud. Accused…...

Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Reportedly Arrested in France

Reports indicate Telegram founder Pavel Durov has been arrested in France. Allegations include inadequate moderation and aiding criminal…...

Australian Man Arrested for “Evil Twin” Wi-Fi Scam Targeting Travelers

An Australian man faces charges for setting up fake Wi-Fi networks "evil twins" to steal data from unsuspecting…...

The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet

The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide...

MIT Graduate Brothers Arrested for $25 Million Ethereum Heist

By Deeba Ahmed Two MIT graduates arrested for allegedly stealing $25 million in Ethereum through a sophisticated blockchain manipulation scheme. The DOJ cracks down on cryptocurrency theft, highlighting its focus on emerging financial crimes. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original pos...

Ukraine Arrests Trio for Hijacking Over 100 Million Email and Instagram Accounts

The Cyber Police of Ukraine has arrested three individuals on suspicion of hijacking more than 100 million emails and Instagram accounts from users across the world. The suspects, aged between 20 and 40, are said to be part of an organized criminal group living in different parts of the country. ...

LockBit Ransomware Hacker Ordered to Pay $860,000 After Guilty Plea in Canada

A 34-year-old Russian-Canadian national has been sentenced to nearly four years in jail in Canada for his participation in the LockBit global ransomware operation. Mikhail Vasiliev, an Ontario resident, was originally arrested in November 2022 and charged by the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ wit...

Multimillion-Dollar Vishing Scam Busted: Czech-Ukrainian Gang Arrested

By Deeba Ahmed Czech Republic Police Expose 'Fake Bankers' Gang in $8.7 Million Vishing Operation. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Multimillion-Dollar Vishing Scam Busted: Czech-Ukrainian Gang Arrested...