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The Spanish Police dismantled a cybercrime and money-laundering organization that made €140 million ($160 million) from investment fraud and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. [...]
Authorities in Poland have arrested four members of an organized cybercrime group accused of breaching telecommunications partners and hijacking email accounts to carry out SIM-swapping attacks. [...]
U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. [...]
AI accounts are becoming part of the cybercrime supply chain, sold like email accounts or VPS access. Flare Systems shows how underground markets bundle and resell premium AI access at scale. [...]
Interpol said law enforcement across 19 countries made 574 arrests and recovered $3 million, against a backdrop of spiraling cybercrime in the region, including business email compromise, digital extortion, and ransomware schemes.
A law enforcement operation coordinated by INTERPOL has led to the recovery of $3 million and the arrest of 574 suspects by authorities from 19 countries, amidst a continued crackdown on cybercrime networks in Africa
Crypto mines, BEC scams, fake passports, and a $300M fraud empire allegedly brought down during Serengeti 2.0 Interpol's latest clampdown on cybercrime resulted in 1,209 arrests across the African continent, from ransomware crooks to business email compromise (BEC) scammers, the agency says.…
KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss's email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company's customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker's infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian cybercrime group that is actively targeting established companies in the transportation and aviation industries.
Cybercrime accounts for more than 30% of all reported crime in East Africa and West Africa, with online scams, ransomware, business email compromise, and digital sextortion taking off.
A new cybercrime platform named 'Atlantis AIO' provides an automated credential stuffing service against 140 online platforms, including email services, e-commerce sites, banks, and VPNs. [...]
An INTERPOL-led operation has led to the arrest of 1,006 suspects across 19 African countries and the takedown of 134,089 malicious infrastructures and networks as part of a coordinated effort to disrupt cybercrime in the continent
Marketed on a cybercriminal forum, the $700 tool harvests email addresses from public GitHub profiles, priming cyberattackers for further credential theft, malware delivery, OAuth subversion, supply chain attacks, and other corporate breaches.
SEGs have performed admirably for many years, but they’re no match for this new generation of email attacks, and relying on outdated tools can have catastrophic consequences. By upgrading to a behavioral AI-based solution, you can defend against emerging threats and become more proactive in the fight against cybercrime.
Timor-Leste is a known cybercrime hotspot Two days is all it took for Interpol to recover more than $40 million worth of stolen funds in a recent business email compromise (BEC) heist, the international cop shop said this week.…
INTERPOL said it devised a "global stop-payment mechanism" that helped facilitate the largest-ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The development comes after an unnamed commodity firm based in Singapore fell victim to a BEC scam in mid-July 2024. It refers to a type of cybercrime where a malicious actor poses as a trusted figure and uses email to
Microsoft is calling attention to a Morocco-based cybercrime group dubbed Storm-0539 that's behind gift card fraud and theft through highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks
Information-Stealing Malware Continues to Amass Fresh Credentials, Experts WarnThe appearance of Naz.api - a massive collection of online credentials harvested by information-stealing malware that contains 71 million unique email addresses - illustrates the scale at which such data is being collected, shared and sold, security experts warn.
That should solve the global cybercrime problem, right? Microsoft has taken down US-based infrastructure and websites used by a cybercrime group to sell fraudulent online accounts to other crooks including Scattered Spider, the infamous social-engineering and extortion crew that hacked two Las Vegas casinos over the summer.…
The Nigerian Police Form has arrested six suspects and dismantled a mentoring hub linked to cybercrime activities, including business email compromise, romance, and investment scams. [...]
The cybercrime recruitment and mentoring hub conducted a variety of cybercrimes including business email compromise.