Cybercrime
GRIMM tales: Europol’s “violence-as-a-service” taskforce makes 200 arrests
Europol’s operational taskforce OTF GRIMM – founded six months ago to combat the emerging trend of criminals outsourcing violent acts – has made 193 arrests in its first six months. Suspects included a child involved in a murder plot.
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Fake modelling agent lures girls into sending child abuse material via Snapchat
A man in Ohio has been given a prison sentence for deceiving young girls into sending him explicit materials via Snapchat.
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The curious case of twin hackers accused of erasing US government databases
The Department of Justice’s case against two Virginia brothers shines a spotlight on insider threats as two convicted hackers allegedly managed to slip back into federal systems and erase years of government data.
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FBI warns of virtual kidnapping scams using fake photos and videos
The FBI warns that crooks are using altered social media images to make it look like they kidnapped a victim’s loved one and demand ransom payments.
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“Desperate” Chinese hackers are already exploiting React2Shell
A newly identified vulnerability dubbed React2Shell, which was only made public on Thursday, is already being exploited by Chinese hackers intent on capitalizing on the cloud-side flaw as quickly as possible.
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American Express fined €1.5M for illegal cookie placement
American Express Carte France, the French subsidiary of credit card company American Express, has been fined €1.5 million for illegally installing cookies.
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The average hacker is not a teen – it’s more likely to be their dad
New research from over 400 law enforcement bodies reveals a boring truth: cybercrime is dominated by middle-aged offenders, not teenagers. The report also shows how reliant the world has become on US law enforcement.
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Thailand seizes $300 million in cyberscam assets linked to Prince Holding group
Authorities in Thailand have seized an absolute fortune of $300 million in cyberscam assets associated with Prince Holding Group, one of Southeast Asia's largest transnational networks.
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Five execs busted for insider trading scandal at anonymous Swiss IT company
Law enforcement authorities from Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have apprehended five suspects for insider trading.
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Unhinged podcaster follows ChatGPT advice to find wife, now faces 70 years for cyberstalking
A deranged podcaster faces up to 70 years behind bars after following ChatGPT’s advice on how to find a wife, claiming the AI chatbot encouraged him to cyberstalk and harass nearly a dozen women across multiple states, the DoJ charges.
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€20M Nordic gambling empire crushed: drugs, trafficking, and money-laundering exposed
The Spanish National Police and the Swedish Police Authority carried out a law enforcement operation in Spain and Sweden between November 28th and 29th, 2025.
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TridentLocker claims data breach at bpost, over 30GB out in the open
A ransomware operation called TridentLocker has managed to lay its hands on data belonging to the Belgian postal and package delivery service bpost.
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WordPress plugin blunder caused UK budget leak, OBR head resigns
A misconfigured WordPress extension led to the premature disclosure of last week’s UK autumn budget, a report has found, prompting OBR head Richard Hughes, who is responsible for overseeing government spending, to resign.
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Dutch prosecutors target 21-year-old dark-web mastermind tied to drugs and CSAM
The Dutch Public Prosecution Service is demanding a three-year prison sentence against a 21-year-old man from England for running a dark web marketplace called Bohemia/Cannabia.
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Our data has been copied, says London borough in council cyberattack
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) has confirmed that a cyberattack affecting shared systems across three London authorities last week has resulted in data being copied from its network.
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Thailand bans government links in SMS and email to fight scams
Thailand’s government is taking radical steps to prevent the spread of online scams, banning all state agencies from sending SMS messages or emails containing embedded links.
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Was a guessable PDF name behind the OBR budget leak?
As the OBR investigates how the Autumn Budget was published early, attention is turning from cyberattacks to something far more mundane: poor file management and predictable URLs.
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Players' data breached in French Football Federation cyberattack
Millions of amateur football players in France may have had their personal data exposed after the French Football Federation (FFF) suffered a cyberattack - and it may not be the first time this has happened.
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Cyber blackmail hits one in ten families, new data reveals
Almost one in ten UK parents say that their child has been blackmailed online, with threats ranging from the release of intimate pictures to disclosing information about their sexuality.
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North Korean Lazarus Group suspected of major crypto heist
Lazarus, the best-known North Korean state-sponsored hacking group, is suspected of draining 45 billion won ($30 million) worth of cryptocurrency from South Korea’s largest crypto exchange, Upbit, on Thursday.
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