All CosmicBytez Labs articles tagged #Law Enforcement, across news, security advisories, how-to guides, and projects.
Dutch Police have announced the arrest of multiple suspects believed to be part of an international investment fraud ring that stole over €100 million from tens of thousands of victims. The operation dismantled fake investment platforms operated by the criminal network across multiple countries.
Spanish National Police, coordinating with Europol, Interpol, Portugal, and Panama, have dismantled a sophisticated cybercriminal organization responsible for €140 million in fraud losses across Europe. Four individuals were arrested after raids across Spain, Portugal, and Panama. The ring operated fraudulent investment platforms, CEO impersonation scams, BEC attacks, and fake invoice fraud — laundering proceeds through 120 shell companies and 800+ bank accounts.
The UK National Crime Agency has charged five suspects following an investigation into Russian Coms, a major criminal caller ID spoofing platform responsible for over 1.8 million scam calls targeting victims across the UK and globally, enabling fraudsters to impersonate banks, government agencies, and trusted organizations.
Dutch police have identified evidence implicating a local Dutch suspect as an accomplice in the cyberattack on telecom provider Odido, which exposed the personal data of more than 6 million customers earlier this year.
A 41-year-old former cybersecurity professional has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for conspiring with the now-defunct BlackCat ransomware group to extort victims and coordinating additional attacks alongside two other cybersecurity professionals.
A Ryuk ransomware operator pleaded guilty in Oregon federal court while a BlackCat/AlphV conspirator received a 70-month prison sentence in Florida,...
Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator turned insider threat, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for actively assisting the...
Karen Vardanyan, an Armenian national, has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to Ryuk ransomware attacks and faces up to 15 years in prison with...
A Bulgarian national already serving over 10 years for laundering millions stolen from American fraud victims now faces new charges after allegedly...
A 3.5-month INTERPOL-led operation spanning 97 countries resulted in 5,811 arrests, $293 million seized, and 142,000 victims identified — targeting...
A sweeping international law enforcement operation spanning 97 countries resulted in the arrest of 5,811 suspects and the seizure of $293 million in...
Peter Stokes, 19, a dual US-Estonian citizen known online as 'Bouquet,' has been extradited from Finland to face federal charges for his alleged role in...
A Microsoft Defender zero-day fuels ransomware before any patch exists; researchers dissect how syndicate groups run HR departments and tiered pricing;...
Microsoft and Europol dismantled both StealC and Amadey simultaneously in a single RICO filing — the first time a court-authorized takedown has targeted...
With tens of billions of dollars flowing into regional economies from cybercrime, scam centers across Southeast Asia continue to flourish despite...
Polish authorities, working alongside the FBI and HSI, have arrested four members of a cybercrime gang that used SIM-swapping attacks to hijack...
A coordinated law enforcement operation backed by Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft has dismantled the infrastructure powering Amadey and StealC,...
Microsoft, Europol, and international law enforcement partners have dismantled infrastructure supporting the Amadey malware loader and StealC infostealer...
Microsoft and Europol jointly targeted the full CaaS supply chain, seizing 300+ servers and disrupting SocGholish, Amadey, and StealC malware infrastructure.
A 21-year-old New York man faces federal cyberstalking charges after allegedly using AI to generate nude images of a Georgia college student and...
In a major Operation Endgame action, law enforcement and private partners seized 106 SocGholish command-and-control servers and domains, with...
A joint law enforcement operation led by Dutch authorities and including partners from Canada, Germany, and the US has disrupted SocGholish malware...
International law enforcement cleaned nearly 15,000 malware-infected WordPress websites and took down more than 100 servers linked to the SocGholish...
A joint FBI and Google operation took down the Outsider Enterprise phishing platform — responsible for over 9,000 fake sites, nearly 4 million stolen...
A joint FBI and Google operation has dismantled the 'Outsider Enterprise' phishing-as-a-service platform responsible for over 9,000 phishing sites, nearly...
This week's security roundup covers Google's controversial security team layoffs, Europol's dismantling of the AudiA6 ransomware crypto laundering...
Europol has dismantled AudiA6, a cryptocurrency laundering service described as a key financial pipeline for ransomware gangs and cybercriminal networks...
A Ukrainian national extradited from Ireland to the United States has pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges tied to the Conti ransomware operation, which...
Law enforcement has dismantled the AudiA6 cryptocurrency laundering service used by ransomware actors and cybercriminals to clean more than $380 million...
A California man was sentenced to over 26 years in federal prison for trafficking fentanyl and meth through Nemesis Market, a major dark web drug marketplace.
The U.S. Department of Justice's 'Disruption Week' operation has dismantled Southeast Asia-linked crypto fraud networks, freezing $3.8 million in assets and…
Law enforcement agencies and major technology companies have jointly dismantled infrastructure tied to Southeast Asia-based scammers, disrupting more than 1.4…
A coordinated international law enforcement operation has dismantled nine organized crime groups and arrested 29 suspects in a major crackdown targeting…
Dutch authorities seized command-and-control servers tied to a botnet of 17 million infected computers, smartphones, and tablets that was allegedly used to…
Dutch authorities took offline a massive botnet of 17 million infected devices and seized more than 200 servers from a local hosting provider that...
A North Carolina man was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for selling the personal information of over 7 million elderly Americans to...
A Google security engineer was charged with insider trading after winning $1.2 million by placing bets on cryptocurrency-based Polymarket using...
A Canadian man received a 33-year US federal sentence after using fake online identities on social media to manipulate children into sending sexually...
Dutch law enforcement seized 800 servers and arrested two operators of THE.Hosting but left the provider's core IP address space intact — and the...
Two former executives of a call-tracking and analytics company have pleaded guilty to concealing a years-long tech support fraud scheme that victimized...
Italian authorities have dismantled the CINEMAGOAL piracy ecosystem after the app was found to have been stealing authentication codes from streaming...
Dutch financial crime investigators (FIOD) arrested two men and seized 800 servers from a hosting company that provided bulletproof infrastructure...
The FBI and international partners have disrupted First VPN, a criminal VPN service used by dozens of ransomware groups for network reconnaissance and...
Canadian authorities arrested a 23-year-old Ottawa man suspected of building and operating Kimwolf, an IoT botnet that enslaved millions of devices for...
Jacob Butler, a Canadian national, has been arrested and charged in the United States and Canada for running the KimWolf DDoS-for-hire botnet, which...
International authorities have disrupted a criminal VPN service called First VPN that was used by more than 25 ransomware groups to conceal network...
U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested and charged a Canadian man with operating the Kimwolf DDoS botnet, which infected nearly two million devices...
European law enforcement has taken down First VPN, a privacy service that had been openly advertised on Russian-language cybercrime forums as a tool for...
International law enforcement has dismantled 'First VPN,' a criminal VPN service marketed on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums and used to facilitate...
Ukrainian cyberpolice, working with US law enforcement, identified an 18-year-old from Odesa suspected of running an infostealer malware operation that...
German authorities have seized a relaunched version of the notorious Crimenetwork criminal marketplace that generated over 3.6 million euros, arresting...
A Scattered Spider threat actor has been arrested, a vulnerability in an NSA tool is disclosed, SOC effectiveness metrics get a rethink, and OFAC...
Two cybersecurity incident responders who abused their trusted positions to secretly carry out ransomware attacks against the organizations they were...
Austrian and Albanian law enforcement jointly dismantled a large-scale cryptocurrency investment fraud operation estimated to have caused over €50 million...
Swiss and German law enforcement arrested 10 suspected members of the Nigerian criminal network Black Axe, including a regional leader believed to oversee...
In a rare show of bilateral cooperation, the US Justice Department and Chinese authorities jointly dismantled a major cryptocurrency investment fraud scam...
A California man has been sentenced to more than five years in federal prison for his role in laundering proceeds for a cybercriminal organization that...
Evan Tangeman, 22, of Newport Beach, California, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for laundering funds stolen in a $230 million cryptocurrency...
Spanish police have shut down the largest Spanish-language manga piracy platform, which had operated since 2014 and served millions of monthly users...
This week's cybersecurity roundup covers the proposed Satellite Cybersecurity Act, a $90,000 Chrome heap overflow bug, a 16-year-old hacker arrest,...
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled 53 DDoS-for-hire domains, arrested four individuals, and exposed over 3 million criminal...
Citizen Lab has documented how an Israeli surveillance company called Cobwebs Technologies built an advertising-based global geolocation platform named...
An NCA-led international law enforcement operation has identified more than 20,000 cryptocurrency fraud victims across the UK, US, and Canada, marking one...
A data breach of the Los Angeles city attorney's office systems has exposed sensitive LAPD law enforcement files, with social media posts advertising 7.7...
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office has publicly unmasked the real identity of "UNKN," the primary operator behind the now-defunct REvil and GandCrab...
Germany's Federal Police have publicly named two Russian nationals as the leaders of the GandCrab and REvil ransomware operations, linking them to at...
Russian authorities have detained a suspected administrator of LeakBase, a major stolen-data marketplace with over 147,000 subscribers, just weeks after...
This week: Russian authorities detain the alleged LeakBase admin weeks after the FBI-led global crackdown on the 147,000-subscriber stolen-data...
Russian law enforcement has arrested the alleged administrator of LeakBase — a credential marketplace operating since 2021 with 142,000 members and...
James Junior Aliyu, 31, received a 90-month federal prison sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering after orchestrating a $6...
The U.S. Department of Justice, in coordination with Germany and Canada, has dismantled the C2 infrastructure of four major IoT botnets — AISURU, Kimwolf,...
An international law enforcement operation codenamed Operation Synergia III has sinkholed 45,000 IP addresses and seized servers linked to ransomware,...
Spanish and Ukrainian law enforcement dismantled a criminal organization that recruited war-displaced Ukrainian women to open bank accounts used to...
Evgenii Ptitsyn, 43, a Russian national who administered the Phobos ransomware-as-a-service operation, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in the U.S....
An international coalition led by Europol and Microsoft has taken down Tycoon2FA, a phishing-as-a-service platform responsible for 87.5 million phishing...
An incident response manager and a ransomware negotiator face up to 20 years after admitting to conducting BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks against...