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DECEMBER 14, 2023

“These services reduce the time and effort needed for criminals to conduct a host of criminal and abusive behaviors online.” “Microsoft has since submitted a criminal referral to U.S. law enforcement. ” reads the announcement published by Microsoft. ” concludes the announcement.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Law enforcement provided additional details about the international Operation Cronos that led to the disruption of the Lockbit ransomware operation. Yesterday, a joint law enforcement action, code-named Operation Cronos , conducted by law enforcement agencies from 11 countries disrupted the LockBit ransomware operation.

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Department of Justice (DOJ) today seized four-dozen domains that sold “booter” or “stresser” services — businesses that make it easy and cheap for even non-technical users to launch powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks designed knock targets offline. The DOJ also charged six U.S.

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MARCH 17, 2023

on March 15, 2023, he led a team of law enforcement agents that made a probable cause arrest of a Conor Brian Fitzpatrick in Peekskill, NY. As part of that operation, the feds also charged the alleged administrator, 21-year-old Diogo Santos Coelho of Portugal, with six criminal counts. In April 2022, U.S.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gang’s darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim companies can use to recover systems.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled an online phone number spoofing service called iSpoof. “The exploitation of technology by organised criminals is one of the greatest challenges for law enforcement in the 21st century. ” London’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley stated.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Justice Department (DoJ) seized the infrastructure that was used to sell the remote access trojan (RAT) Warzone RAT. The Justice Department announced the seizure of internet domains used to sell the remote access Trojan Warzone RAT (www.warzone[.]ws). Furthermore, he allegedly offered customer support to buyers of both RATs.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The infection occurred on February 17, 2023, once discovered the infection the Marshals Service disconnected the system from the network and the Justice Department launched a forensic investigation. The USMS is a US federal law enforcement agency, it is a bureau within the U.S. law enforcement officials said Monday.”

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JULY 26, 2021

Justice Department last week announced O’Connor’s arrest and indictment, his alleged role in the Twitter compromise was well covered in the media. law enforcement officer ,” the footnote reads. REACT is a team of law enforcement officers and prosecutors based in Santa Clara, Calif. When the U.S.

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JUNE 11, 2021

The US Department of Justice seized the servers and domains of the popular cybercrime marketplace SlilPP. The US Department of Justice announced to have seized the infrastructure of SlilPP , a popular marketplace used by cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen login credentials. law enforcement in connection with the Slilpp marketplace.

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MARCH 25, 2023

National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that it has set up a number of fake DDoS-for-hire sites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. The UK National Crime Agency announced it has infiltrated the online criminal marketplace by setting up several sites purporting to offer DDoS-for-hire services. In December, the U.S.

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APRIL 3, 2024

“Ironically, the Manipulaters may create more short-term risk to their own customers than law enforcement,” DomainTools wrote. “FIR” in this case stands for “First Information Report,” which is the initial complaint in the criminal justice system of Pakistan.

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

Department of Justice (DoJ) seized forty-eight domains that offered DDoS-for-Hire Service Platforms to crooks. Department of Justice (DoJ) this week announced the seizure of 48 domains associated with the DDoS-for-Hire Service platforms (aka Booter services) used by threat actors. api-sky.xyz astrostress.com booter.sx cyberstress.us

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JUNE 18, 2022

Department of Justice (DoJ) announced to have shut down the infrastructure associated with the Russian botnet RSOCKS. ” reads the announcement published by DoJ. “Cyber criminals will not escape justice regardless of where they operate. “The U.S. ” continues DoJ.

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JUNE 27, 2023

Europol announced that the dismantling of the encrypted chat network EncroChat has led to the arrest of over 6,558 individuals worldwide and the seizure of $979 million in criminal funds. Since 2017, the police have launched an investigation into phones that were used by criminals to secure their communications.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

30, prosecutors in Iowa announced they had dropped the criminal charges. Amy Sinclair was quoted as telling her colleagues that “the hiring of an outside company to break into the courthouses in September created ‘significant danger, not only to the contractors, but to local law enforcement, and members of the public.'”

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MARCH 31, 2023

A statement released today by the German Federal Criminal Police Office says they served eight search warrants on March 30, and identified five individuals aged 16-24 suspected of operating “an internet service” since mid-2021. A seizure notice left on the FlyHosting domains. This post will be updated in the event they respond.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Google sued Starovikov and 15 other “John Doe” defendants, alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, trademark and unfair competition law, and unjust enrichment. District Court Judge Denise Cote wrote.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

FBI coordinated an international law enforcement operation, named Operation ‘Duck Hunt’, that dismantled the Qakbot botnet. The FBI announced that the Qakbot botnet has been dismantled as a result of an international law enforcement operation named Operation ‘Duck Hunt.’ Duck Hunt is one of the largest U.S.-led

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JULY 22, 2020

. “From on or about February 2016 through on or about March 2017, Artem Viacheslavovich Radchenko recruited Oleksandr Vitalyevich Ieremenko and other hackers in Ukraine and managed their criminal efforts to enrich themselves through a sophisticated securities fraud scheme.” ” But Ukrainian hackers remain at large.

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MARCH 10, 2023

An international law enforcement operation seized the infrastructure associated with the NetWire RAT and resulted in the arrest of its administrator. A coordinated international law enforcement operation resulted in the seizure of the infrastructure associated with the NetWire RAT, the police also arrested its administrator.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The US Department of Justice requires the payment of $1,685,000 in penalties ( $750,000, $600,000, and $335,000, respectively) to resolve its investigation regarding violations of U.S. export control, computer fraud and access device fraud laws. Lesko for the Justice Department’s National Security Division.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

and EU law enforcement authorities allowed the seizure of the leak sites used by NetWalker ransomware operators. Law enforcement authorities in the U.S. “The Department of Justice today announced a coordinated international law enforcement action to disrupt a sophisticated form of ransomware known as NetWalker.”

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Yesterday, a joint law enforcement action, code-named Operation Cronos , conducted by law enforcement agencies from 11 countries disrupted the LockBit ransomware operation. The Tor leak site was seized by the NCA and is now used to publish updates on the law enforcement operation and provide support to the victims of the gang.

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JUNE 8, 2021

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Dutch National Police (Politie), and the Swedish Police Authority (Polisen), along with the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and police from 16 other countries have carried out with the support of Europol a joint operation against criminal activities worldwide.

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Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today unsealed charges against 11 alleged members of the GozNym malware network, an international cybercriminal syndicate suspected of stealing $100 million from more than 41,000 victims with the help of a stealthy banking trojan by the same name. Avalanche was dismantled in Dec.

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MARCH 19, 2021

Justice Department announced on Thursday that the Russian national Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov (27), who attempted to convince a Tesla employee to install malware on the company’s computers, has pleaded guilty. Kriuchkov conspired with other criminals to recruit the employee of an unnamed company in Nevada.

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APRIL 12, 2022

The illegal dark web marketplace RaidForums has been shut down and its infrastructure seized as a result of the international law enforcement Operation TOURNIQUET coordinated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre. The law enforcement arrested the administrator of the marketplace and two of his accomplices. .

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Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says the GRU’s hackers built Cyclops Blink by exploiting previously undocumented security weaknesses in firewalls and routers made by both ASUS and WatchGuard Technologies. A statement from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA). energy facilities.

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JUNE 17, 2021

McQuaid of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Koshkin provided Levashov with a custom crypting service that was used to distribute Kelihos through multiple criminal affiliates. “Levashov provided the Kelihos malware to Crypt4U personnel for crypting before distributing it to his victims.

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MAY 4, 2023

Cybercriminals turned to services like this after purchasing stolen credit card data from an underground shop, with an eye toward minimizing the number of cards that are inactive by the time they are put to criminal use. law enforcement. Secret Service and U.S. At the same time, the U.S. In 2017, U.S. Image: Migalki.net.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Experts say the development could make it easier for victims of crypto heists to recover stolen funds through the courts without having to wait years for law enforcement to take notice or help. Department of Justice. The law firm DLAPiper writes that in November 2022, the U.S. Ryan Dellone , a healthcare worker in Fresno, Calif.,

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Department of Justice (DoJ) charged Mikhail Vasiliev, a dual Russian and Canadian national, for his alleged participation in the LockBit ransomware operation. It is also a result of more than a decade of experience that FBI agents, Justice Department prosecutors, and our international partners have built dismantling cyber threats.

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JUNE 29, 2023

law enforcement. law enforcement. Prior to that, the CEO of Group-IB, Ilya Sachkov, was arrested by law enforcement back in September 2021 and currently remains in prison. law enforcement earlier, Kislitsin was involved in the monetization of stolen data which was exfiltrated from multiple companies including Formspring.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

.” While threatening to prosecute the reporters to the fullest extent of the law, Parson sought to downplay the severity of the security weakness, saying the reporter only unmasked three Social Security numbers, and that “there was no option to decode Social Security numbers for all educators in the system all at once.”

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MAY 20, 2021

IRS-Criminal Investigation will continue to work side-by-side with our law enforcement partners to identify and prosecute international cyber criminals who infiltrate our tax system for personal gain. The final sentence was clement with the cybercriminal, the man could have faced up to 27 years’ imprisonment for his charges.

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