Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

Police arrested the alleged admin of XSS.is, a major cybercrime forum whose trusted escrow service helped power the underground economy. On 22 July 2025, French and Ukrainian police arrested a 38-year-old man in Kyiv and shut down XSS.is, the most influential Russian-language cybercrime forum of the past decade. Europol, which coordinated the operation under the […]

Elon Musk and X’s former CEO were summoned for voluntary interviews in Paris on April 20, 2026

Basketball player accused of aiding cybercrime gang extradition blocked in exchange for Swiss NGO consultant France has released an alleged ransomware crook wanted by the US in exchange for a conflict researcher imprisoned in Russia.…

France-based victims hit especially hard, while UK named most-targeted country generally Researchers are seeing a "dramatic" increase in cybercrime involving physical violence across Europe, with at least 18 cases reported since the start of the year.…

US and French fuzz pull the plug on Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters' latest leak shop targeting Salesforce US authorities have seized the latest incarnation of BreachForums, the cybercriminal bazaar recently reborn under the stewardship of the so-called Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters, with help from French cyber cops and the Paris prosecutor's office.…

On July 22, 2025, the European police agency Europol said a long-running investigation led by the French Police resulted in the arrest of a 38-year-old administrator of XSS, a Russian-language cybercrime forum with more than 50,000 members. The action has triggered an ongoing frenzy of speculation and panic among XSS denizens about the identity of the unnamed suspect, but the consensus is that he is a pivotal figure in the crime forum scene who goes by the hacker handle "Toha." Here's a deep dive on what's knowable about Toha, and a short stab at who got nabbed.

Europol on Monday announced the arrest of the suspected administrator of XSS.is (formerly DaMaGeLaB), a notorious Russian-speaking cybercrime platform

Notorious Site Facilitated Buying and Selling of Breached Databases, Hacking ToolsFrench police have reportedly busted five suspected hackers - "IntelBroker," "ShinyHunters," "Hollow," "Noct" and "Depressed" - tied to the operation of the notorious cybercrime site BreachForums, which facilitated the buying and selling of stolen databases and hacking tools.

Twentysomethings claimed to be linked to spate of high-profile cybercrimes The Paris police force's cybercrime brigade (BL2C) has arrested a further four men as part of a long-running investigation into the criminals behind BreachForums.…

The French police have reportedly arrested five operators of the BreachForum cybercrime forum, a website used by cybercriminals to leak and sell stolen data that exposed the sensitive information of millions. [...]

In the latest attack against ISPs, second-largest French provider Free fell victim to unknown cyberattackers who attempted to sell the compromised data it stole from the company on an underground cybercrime forum.

French Police Office for Cybercrime Has a Staff of 180A dedicated cybercrime unit under the French National Police is set to scale up operations ahead of the upcoming Olympics as authorities warn that cyberattacks are among the greatest threats to the event. Authorities on Friday unveiled the unit's new headquarters in Parisian suburb Nanterre.

A suspected senior member of a French-speaking hacking crew known as OPERA1ER has been arrested as part of an international law enforcement operation codenamed Nervone, Interpol has announced

Man seized in Morocco is now presumably sleepless in Seattle A French citizen was scheduled to appear before a US court on Friday on a nine-count indictment related to his alleged involvement in the ShinyHunters cybercrime gang that trafficked in identity and corporate data theft and sometimes extortion.…

A cybercrime group dubbed Bluebottle has been linked to a set of targeted attacks against the financial sector in Francophone countries located in Africa from at least July 2022 to September 2022

Law enforcement authorities in France, in collaboration with Spain and Latvia, have disrupted a cybercrime ring that leveraged a hacking tool to steal cars without having to use a physical key fob