“Welcome to Video” raid leads to 337 arrests due to Bitcoin Exchanges that use strong KYC

The darkweb child sexual exploitation video site, “Welcome to Video”, first came onto Law Enforcement’s attention as a result of a case in the UK, where a geophysicist Matthew Falder was arrested.  When the National Crime Agency was looking into… Continue reading “Welcome to Video” raid leads to 337 arrests due to Bitcoin Exchanges that use strong KYC

Man whose DDoS attacks took down entire country’s Internet jailed

By Waqas
A court in London has sentenced a British and Israeli cyber criminal Daniel Kaye aka “BestBuy and Popopret” to two years and eight months in prison for conducting large scale DDoS attacks on Lonestar Cell MTN disrupting country&#82… Continue reading Man whose DDoS attacks took down entire country’s Internet jailed

Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats

A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was “Feds Can’t Touch Us” pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools.

On Aug. 31, officers with the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Hertfordshire resident George Duke-Cohan, who admitted making bomb threats to thousands of schools and a United Airlines flight traveling from the U.K. to San Francisco last month. Continue reading Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats

Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats

A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was “Feds Can’t Touch Us” pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools.
On Aug. 31, officers with the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (N… Continue reading Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats

‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled

In what’s being billed as an unprecedented global law enforcement response to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe today say they’ve dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed, cloud-hosting network that for the past seven years has been rented out to fraudsters for use in launching countless malware and phishing attacks. Continue reading ‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled

‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled

In what’s being billed as an unprecedented global law enforcement response to cybercrime, federal investigators in the United States, United Kingdom and Europe today say they’ve dismantled a sprawling cybercrime machine known as “Avalanche” — a distributed, cloud-hosting network that for the past seven years has been rented out to fraudsters for use in launching countless malware and phishing attacks. Continue reading ‘Avalanche’ Global Fraud Ring Dismantled