South Korean police have revealed a major hacking campaign which saw defense secrets stolen by hackers from the north over the period of a year. A report from the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) published yesterday blamed the campaign on three North Korean state-backed groups: Lazarus, Kimsuky and Andariel. Local reports claimed they targeted as […]
Apr 23, 2024NewsroomEnd-to-End Encryption / Privacy European Police Chiefs said that the complementary partnership between law enforcement agencies and the technology industry is at risk due to end-to-end encryption (E2EE). They called on the industry and governments to take urgent action to ensure public safety across social media platforms. “Privacy measures currently being rolled out, […]
A police investigation has been launched after MPs were apparently targeted in a “spear-phishing” attack, in what security experts believe could be an attempt to compromise parliament. A police force said it had started an inquiry after receiving a complaint from an MP who was sent a number of unsolicited messages last month. Twelve people […]
Mar 28, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Malware The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country’s Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early 2021. The agency described the ongoing criminal […]
Read more on deepfake policy changes ahead of the 2024 elections: South Korea’s police forces are developing a new deepfake detection tool that they can use during criminal investigations. The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) announced on March 5, 2024 to South Korean press agency Yonhap that its National Office of Investigation (NOI) will deploy […]
Police seized Crimemarket, the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace Pierluigi Paganini March 01, 2024 German police seized the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace Crimemarket and arrested one of its operators. The Düsseldorf Police announced that a large-scale international law enforcement operation led to the seizure of the largest German-speaking cybercrime marketplace. “Under the direction of the North Rhine-Westphalia […]
German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market Pierluigi Paganini December 20, 2023 The German police seized the dark web marketplace Kingdom Market as a result of an international law enforcement operation. The Federal Criminal Police Office in Germany (BKA) and the internet-crime combating unit of Frankfurt (ZIT), along with law enforcement agencies from […]
Dec 20, 2023NewsroomFinancial Crime / Cyber Threat A six-month-long international police operation codenamed HAECHI-IV has resulted in the arrests of nearly 3,500 individuals and seizures worth $300 million across 34 countries. The exercise, which took place from July through December 2023, took aim at various types of financial crimes such as voice phishing, romance scams, […]
Police in Lancashire in North West England have managed to return around £8 million ($10 million) in bitcoin to a man whose cryptocurrency was stolen back in 2017. It follows four people being sentenced earlier this year for their part in a £20 million ($25 million) hack after they discovered a glitch in how the […]
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