Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

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Ukraine's cyber police arrested a 31-year-old for running a cybercrime operation that gained access to bank accounts of American and Canadian users and sold it on the dark web. [...]

German law enforcement has announced the disruption of a dark web platform called Kingdom Market that specialized in the sales of narcotics and malware to "tens of thousands of users." The exercise, which involved collaboration from authorities from the U.S., Switzerland, Moldova, and Ukraine, began on December 16, 2023, the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said

Separately, charges slapped on alleged operator of dark market, The Real Deal Mark Sokolovsky, 26, a Ukrainian national, is being held in the Netherlands while he awaits extradition to America on cybercrime charges, the US Justice Department said on Tuesday.…

Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Friday disclosed that it had "neutralized" a hacking group operating from the city of Lviv that it said acted on behalf of Russian interests

The cyber department of Ukraine's Security Service (SSU) has taken down a group of hackers that stole accounts of about 30 million individuals and sold them on the dark web. [...]

Documents allegedly belonging to an EU defense dealer include those relating to weapons used by Ukraine in its fight against Russia.

Several weapon marketplaces on the dark web have listed military-grade firearms allegedly coming from Western countries that sent them to support the Ukrainian army in its fight against the Russian invaders. [...]

Several weapon marketplaces on the dark web have listed military-grade firearms allegedly coming from Western countries that sent them to support the Ukrainian army in its fight against the Russian invaders. [...]

A 28-year-old Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for siphoning thousands of server login credentials and selling them on the dark web for monetary gain as part of a credential theft scheme

Server logins were sold on dark web criminal marketplace

Glib Oleksandr Ivanov-Tolpintsev, a 28-year-old from Ukraine, was sentenced today to 4 years in prison for stealing thousands of login credentials per week and selling them on a dark web marketplace. [...]

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says it has disrupted a giant botnet built and operated by a Russian government intelligence unit known for launching destructive cyberattacks against energy infrastructure in the United States and Ukraine. Separately, law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and Germany moved to decapitate "Hydra," a billion-dollar Russian darknet drug bazaar that also helped to launder the profits of multiple Russian ransomware groups.