Scattered Spider Hackers Plead Guilty on Day 1 of Trial
Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that...
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First VPN Dismantled in Global Takedown Over Use by 25 Ransomware Groups
Authorities in Europe and North America have announced the dismantling of a criminal virtual private network (VPN) service used by...
BKA Identifies REvil Leaders Behind 130 German Ransomware Attacks
Ravie LakshmananApr 06, 2026Cybercrime / Financial Crime Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (aka BKA or the Bundeskriminalamt) has unmasked the...
TrendAI™ Supports Global Law Enforcement Efforts
Serious fraud and cybercrime know no boundaries — jurisdictional or otherwise. Criminal gangs operate with impunity across borders, often leaving...
Authorities Disrupt SocksEscort Proxy Botnet Exploiting 369,000 IPs Across 163 Countries
A court-authorized international law enforcement operation has dismantled a criminal proxy service named SocksEscort that enslaved thousands of residential routers...
Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations
Ravie LakshmananFeb 13, 2026Malware / Critical Infrastructure Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea,...
Nation-state and criminal actors leverage WinRAR flaw in attacks
Nation-state and criminal actors leverage WinRAR flaw in attacks Pierluigi Paganini January 29, 2026 Multiple threat actors exploited a now-patched...
