The Qakbot botnet has suffered a major setback after its infrastructure was heavily disrupted by US and European law enforcement agencies….
Tag: law enforcement
Facial recognition tech lands innocent woman with bogus carjacking charge
Detroit law enforcement wrongly arrested a 32 year old woman for a robbery and carjacking she did not commit. She was…
Elderly targeted in car accident scam, kingpin arrested
The head of a criminal network responsible for defrauding hundreds of elderly people has been arrested, Europol has announced. After a joint…
DeadBolt ransomware gang tricked into giving victims free decryption keys
Dutch police and other law enforcement agencies have managed to trick the DeadBolt ransomware operators into releasing 150 decryption keys for…
The ransomware landscape changes as fewer victims decide to pay
Fewer victims are choosing to pay their ransomware extorters, especially among large enterprises, according to a recent investigation from Coveware. As…
Roe v. Wade: How the cops can use your data: Lock and Code S03E15
On the evening of June 23, in the United States, millions of women went to bed with a Constitutional right to…
Interpol’s First Light operation smashes crime on a global scale
A large-scale Interpol operation has resulted in arrested and ill-gotten gains seizures galore. Operation First Lighttook place between March and May…
When renting a hitman online goes horribly wrong
You might think looking up an illegal act online, and then visiting a website claiming to be all about doing said…
FBI server hijacked to send up to 100,000 bogus attack mails
If you received a scary missive from what appears to be from the FBI over the last few days, you’re not…
Google, geofence warrants, and you
Another day, another example of how the data sharing choices we make can come back to haunt us. The Guardian reports…