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European cops collected data from encrypted chat services for weeks prior to cocaine bust

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Breached encrypted messaging tools increasingly seem to provide European law enforcement agencies with a kind of roadmap to high profile drug busts.  Belgium’s Federal Police force on Monday said they had seized nearly 28 tons of cocaine with a street value of 1.4 billion euros ($1.65 billion) after officials accessed an encrypted messaging service, as CNN first reported. The activity came after police said in March they had decrypted half a billion messages sent via the Sky ECC service, and arrested 48 people. The cocaine seizure appears to be the result of that initial investigation, as officials say they spent weeks tracking messages and gathering information about cocaine shipments before intercepting packages at the port of Antwerp.  It was only the latest example of European police accessing hard-to-crack technology to collect evidence about suspected criminals, though.  Dutch police working with French officials last year broke into another messaging service, EncroChat, […]

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Group-IB joins Cyberveilig Nederland to increase cyber resilience in the Netherlands

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Group-IB has become a member of the Dutch Cyberveilig Nederland in a bid to boost the digital resilience of the Netherlands and increase the quality and transparency of the country’s cybersecurity sector. By joining Cyberveilig Nederland, Group-IB stri… Continue reading Group-IB joins Cyberveilig Nederland to increase cyber resilience in the Netherlands→

Police shut down illegal video streaming app Mobdro with 100M users

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By Habiba Rashid
Authorities have arrested 4 people from Spain and Andorra while servers behind Mobdro have also been seized. Here’s why it happened.
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10 SIM-swapping hackers nabbed for targeting US celebrities

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Europol has announced arresting 10 hackers involved in large scale SIM-swapping attacks targeting high-profile celebrities in the United States.
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SIM-swapping gang busted for targeting ‘influencers, sports stars, musicians’

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International police say 10 suspects have been arrested for fraudulently accessing the phones of celebrities to steal about $100 million cryptocurrency as well as personal data throughout 2020. The sting included eight arrests in the United Kingdom as well as one in Malta and another in Belgium, according to Europol. The U.S. Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security and FBI were all involved in the operation, the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said. As of Wednesday morning, it was unclear who the victims were, but the NCA said they included “well-known influencers, sports stars, musicians, and their families.” Neither Europol nor the NCA named the suspects. Victims’ phones were targeted via SIM swapping, police said. Unlike a direct hack on a person’s device, SIM swapping — also known as SIM hijacking — typically involves a little help from other humans. Scammers often take over a person’s digital profile by deactivating […]

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World’s Most ‘Resilient Malware’ Botnet Emotet Taken Down

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Emotet malware botnet has been taken down by cybersecurity and law enforcement agencies after a joint global operation.
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US, European police say they’ve disrupted the notorious Emotet botnet

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U.S. and European law enforcement agencies said Wednesday they had seized control of the computing infrastructure used by Emotet, a botnet of infected machines that has been one of the most pervasive cybercrime threats over the last six years. Through the police and the courts, investigators from Ukraine to Germany to the U.S. took aim at the hundreds of computer servers that Emotet has used globally to defraud victims of millions through extortion and data theft. The investigators “gained control of the infrastructure and took it down from the inside,” Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, said in a statement. “The infected machines of victims have been redirected towards this law enforcement-controlled infrastructure.   A video posted by Ukrainian police shows officers raiding an apartment and confiscating computer equipment as part of the Emotet bust. It’s a big blow to a botnet that has haunted the internet for years. […]

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International Action Targets Emotet Crimeware

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Authorities across Europe on Tuesday said they’d seized control over Emotet, a prolific malware strain and cybercrime-as-service operation. Investigators say the action could help quarantine more than a million Microsoft Windows systems currently compromised with malware tied to Emotet infections. Continue reading International Action Targets Emotet Crimeware→

International law enforcement effort pulls off Emotet botnet takedown

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Law enforcement and judicial authorities worldwide have effected a global takedown of the Emotet botnet, Europol announced today. “The Emotet infrastructure essentially acted as a primary door opener for computer systems on a global scale. Once t… Continue reading International law enforcement effort pulls off Emotet botnet takedown→