Suspects affiliated with a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) platform used in LockerGoga, MegaCortex, and Dharma ransomware attacks were detained in Ukraine and Switzerland.
ODIN Intelligence, a law enforcement technology vendor, has experienced a chain of security incidents as of late including a defaced website (and possibly much worse). Company had already been a magnet for controversy over some of its more privacy-invasive products.
Today, crime data is heavily used in security and police work to cut down on criminal activity instead of simply reacting to crime. Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) technology is getting better and using data correctly can help police forces get better.
Europol arrested a "high value" Russian-Canadian LockBit ransomware operator wanted in connection to high-profile cyber attacks on critical infrastructure and large industrial groups.
Europol, Latvian, and Lithuanian police arrested 108 suspects involved in an international investment scam operation in 3 call centers located in Riga and Vilnius. Operation makes €3 million in profit per month.
The ongoing battle royal between Apple and the FBI, which is trying to force the Cupertino based company to disable the built-in protections of an iPhone formerly owned by a terrorist has long term implications for privacy across the globe. Whether Apple wins or loses privacy advocates are watching the events extremely carefully. Data Privacy Asia reached out to some experts across Asia for their opinion on the ongoing legal battle.
In 2018, 351,936 complaints were filed with the FBI, averaging around 900 a day, and these successful internet crime schemes resulted in about $2.7 billion in personal and business losses.
The contentious ongoing battle between Apple and the Department of Justice continues, as the company has refused yet another request for an iPhone backdoor.
After an apparent refusal to pay a ransom demand, Russian hackers have leaked a sampling of 13 million records of UK police data to the dark web in retaliation. The records were stolen from a police contractor.
Mounting controversy over law enforcement agencies’ use of new facial recognition tool developed by Clearview AI, which allegedly scraped more than 3 billion photographs of people from Internet.
