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651 arrested, $4.3 million recovered in African cybercrime sweep
Operation Red Card 2.0, supported by INTERPOL and involving law enforcement agencies from 16 African countries, led to 651 arrests and the recovery of more than $4.3 million …
Adidas investigates alleged data breach affecting 815,000 records
Adidas confirmed it is investigating a possible data breach involving one of its third-party customer service providers. The company stated that there is no indication its IT …
Phobos ransomware affiliate arrested in Poland
Officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) detained a 47-year-old man suspected of creating, acquiring, and sharing computer programs used to …
Police arrests distributor of JokerOTP password-stealing bot
The Dutch National Police arrested a 21-year-old man from Dordrecht as part of a cybercrime investigation by Team Cybercrime Oost-Brabant. The suspect is believed to have …
Police shut down global DDoS operation, arrest 20-year-old
Police officers from Poland’s Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime (CBZC) have arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of carrying out global DDoS attacks targeting …
AI is driving a new kind of phishing at scale
Email remains a primary entry point for attackers, and security teams continue to manage high volumes of malicious messages that change form across campaigns. Attackers …
Incognito dark web drug market operator gets 30 years in prison
Rui-Siang Lin, a Taiwanese national, was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison for operating Incognito Market, one of the world’s largest illicit online narcotics …
Ex-Google engineer found guilty of stealing AI secrets
A federal jury in California convicted former Google software engineer Linwei Ding, also known as Leon Ding, on seven counts of economic espionage and seven counts of theft of …
A fake romance turns into an Android spyware infection
ESET researchers have identified an Android spyware campaign that uses romance scam tactics to target individuals in Pakistan. The operation relies on a malicious app …
WinRAR vulnerability still a go-to tool for hackers, Mandiant warns
State-sponsored hackers and financially motivated attackers continue leveraging a critical WinRAR vulnerability (CVE-2025-8088) that’s been fixed over half a year ago. …
Cybercriminals speak the language young people trust
Criminal groups actively recruit, train, and retain people in structured ways. They move fast, pay in crypto, and place no weight on age. Young people are dealing with a new …
Initial access broker pleads guilty to selling access to 50 corporate networks
A 40-year-old Jordanian man has admitted to selling unauthorized access to computer networks of at least 50 companies, the US Attorney’s Office of the District of New …
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