A joint operation by Meta and law enforcement authorities from 10 countries has taken down 150,000 scam accounts and nabbed 21 suspected masterminds of online fraud.
British authorities have slapped the cuffs on four suspects linked to the Marks & Spencer cyber attack that disrupted its Click and Collect services, costing the company over $300 million.
The DOJ, the FBI, and the U.S. Secret Service have collaborated with private partners to execute the largest seizure of crypto assets related to pig butchering investment scams.
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged five members of the cybercrime gang Scattered Spider for related cyber attacks affecting numerous individuals and organizations, including Okta, Caesars Entertainment, Twilio, DoorDash, MailChimp, Reddit, and Riot Games.
UK Police have arrested a 17-year-old suspected Scattered Spider member accused of the MGM hack that disrupted casinos and hotels in Las Vegas on September 12, 2023, costing over $100 million in recovery.
The raid of the hacking forum follows the auction of stolen data from Europol last week and an April leak of information said to have been taken from a contractor used by the Five Eyes intelligence agencies.
International law enforcement operation appears to have significantly disrupted the capabilities of the LockBit ransomware group, one of the biggest internet-based criminal hacking organizations in the world, seizing about 200 of the group's crypto wallets and over 1,000 decryption keys.
The infrastructure for the Qakbot malware botnet that has been a plague since 2007 has been dismantled by an FBI-led law enforcement action. The botnet was composed of over 700,000 infected computers, and is responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in damages worldwide during its run.
This appears to be the first time that the SEC has sent a Wells Notice to a CISO. While novel, this Wells Notice furthers the SEC’s recent enforcement and rulemaking focus on meaningful and timely cybersecurity-related disclosures, as well as holding individual liable for their roles in company violations.
European law enforcement agencies arrested five suspects linked to an online investment fraud scheme that defrauded over 33,000 victims of at least $98 million.
