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The ransomware landscape is reconsolidating around major players, with Qilin emerging as the leading RaaS operation, researchers say

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 […]

A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a "dramatic increase" in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal networks, and a disparity in cybersecurity maturity

Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of INC from an nascent ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation to one of the most prolific cybercrime groups in 2026, claiming no less than 830 victims since August 2023

Oleksii Lytvynenko, a 44-year-old Ukrainian national, admitted to joining the prolific cybercrime group in 2021. Officials said he engaged in cybercrime up until his arrest in Ireland in 2023. The post Conti ransomware group member pleads guilty, faces up to 20 years in prison appeared first on CyberScoop.

A cybercrime group known as The Gentlemen has emerged as the second most active ransomware gang by victim count, rapidly attracting a talented pool of hackers through an aggressive recruitment strategy that promises affiliates 90 percent of any ransom paid by victims. This post examines clues pointing to a real life identity for the administrator of The Gentlemen ransomware group.

Microsoft says it has disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that abused the company's Artifact Signing service to generate fraudulent code-signing certificates used by ransomware gangs and other cybercriminals. [...]

Fox Tempest, a financially-motivated threat group, allowed ransomware operators and other cybercriminals to slip malware-laced software past security controls. The post Microsoft disrupts cybercrime service that abused software verification systems en masse appeared first on CyberScoop.

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit has taken down the infrastructure of Fox Tempest, a prolific cybercrime-enabling threat group

Internal Communications Dumped Online, Revealing Fresh Victims, Repeat TacticsRansomware group The Gentlemen, a relative newcomer to the cybercrime scene, suffered a leak of its internal communications, revealing previously non-public victims, a variety of tactics, techniques and tools, and a relentless focus on popping backup and storage infrastructure.

Cybercrime Gang Claims to Have 108-Gbyte Trove of Insurer's Files, FoldersRansomware gang Everest Group claims to have stolen more than 108 gigabytes of data- including policyholder details - belonging to insurer Liberty Mutual. The cybercrime group began leaking the company's alleged data on Monday afternoon, saying the insurer "failed" to respond to the gang's demands.

A former ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to abusing his position by working with noted cybercrime group BlackCat

Microsoft says the financially motivated cybercrime group has exploited n-day and zero-day vulnerabilities in campaigns predicated on speed.

An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs and helped carry out at least 130 acts of computer sabotage and extortion against victims across the country between 2019 and 2021.

Stan Duijf of Dutch National Police on Collaborative Law EnforcementGlobal law enforcement agencies are shifting tactics to disrupt ransomware earlier in the attack chain. Stan Duijf of the Dutch National Police describes how collaboration, threat intelligence and cryptocurrency seizures are making cybercrime more costly and less effective for criminals.

A 26-year-old Russian citizen has been sentenced in the U.S. to 6.75 years (81 months) in prison for his role in assisting major cybercrime groups, including the Yanluowang ransomware crew, in conducting numerous attacks against U.S. companies and other organizations

Google’s research report on ransomware activity last year underscores how cybercrime is evolving and clouding a collective understanding of its full impact and scale. The post The ransomware economy is shifting toward straight-up data extortion appeared first on CyberScoop.

A new law enforcement operation against phishing and ransomware operators led to the takedown of 45,000 malicious IP addresses

INTERPOL on Friday announced the takedown of 45,000 malicious IP addresses and servers used in connection with phishing, malware, and ransomware campaigns, as part of the agency's ongoing efforts to dismantle criminal networks, disrupt emerging threats, and safeguard victims from scams