The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.K.'s National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecutor signed a memorandum to cooperate on cases involving Southeast Asian scam operations.
FBI probes suspected breach at IDScan.net after dark web service Nexus offered 153M+ US and Canadian driver’s license scans. A dark web identity theft service called Nexus appeared on September 1, 2026, offering searchable access to more than 153 million scanned driver’s licenses belonging to people in the United States and Canada. The FBI’s New […]
Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev appeared in a San Francisco federal court on Monday after being arrested in Cyprus in May 2025 and extradited to the U.S. last week.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017. Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California
A California federal grand jury has indicted a Russian national for his role in a phishing campaign that infected thousands of freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware. [...]
International law enforcement agencies and private partners have seized Sality malware infrastructure in a joint action aiming to disrupt and take down the peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. [...]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. The effort was undertaken on August 31, 2026, by authorities from the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, in collaboration with private industry partners CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation. To that
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) toda…
Five Venezuelan nationals pleaded guilty after failed ATM jackpotting attempts in Kansas. The FBI recorded 700+ cases in 2025, causing $20M in losses. Five Venezuelan nationals have pleaded guilty after trying to steal cash from ATMs in Kansas using the popular ATM jackpotting technique. The U.S. Department of Justice announced the case on August 31, […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. Last week, the DoJ said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department
Australian authorities have arrested and charged two young men accused of being part of the TeamPCP hacking group linked to a string of far-reaching developer supply chain attacks. [...]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives confirmed it experienced a cyberattack on a system containing investigation information, as a prolific ransomware gang claimed to have carried out the breach.
Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever. In a statement released today, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said two unnamed suspects from Western Australia, aged 21 and 23, were arrested in connection with a "sophisticated cybercrime syndicate that allegedly created malicious open-source software to rob thousands of glo…
FBI seizes QScan and QTRouter, China-linked platforms used to hide intrusions and target U.S. critical infrastructure. The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have seized two platforms, QScan and QTRouter, used by a China-linked group to hide cyberattacks and target critical infrastructure. The operation matters because it shows how state-backed actors no longer need […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced the disruption of two hacking platforms named QScan and QTRouter operated by Chinese threat actors to target critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks in the country. The activity has been attributed to a Chinese state-sponsored group known as QTFY, employed by Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company (南京鑫玖维网络科技有限公司).&
The DOJ said it disrupted Chinese state-backed tools used to scan, infect and exploit IoT devices for attacks on federal agencies and multiple industries.
The FBI has disrupted infrastructure associated with a technical "quartermaster" that provided reconnaissance, proxy management, and operational routing capabilities for Chinese cyber espionage activities. [...]
The international law enforcement operation focused on disrupting crime-as-a-service networks and infrastructure behind groups like Black Axe.
An eight-month INTERPOL operation targeting West African organized crime groups has led to arrests of 58 people and the identification of 263 suspects. "The operation, which brought together 22 countries from six continents, is a response to the escalating global threat posed by West African criminal networks – such as the Black Axe and other similar groups," INTERPOL said. "These groups are
INTERPOL’s Operation Jackal IV made 58 arrests and exposed global networks laundering money from scams, fraud and sextortion. INTERPOL announced that Operation Jackal IV, running from November 2025 to June 2026, led to 58 arrests and identified 263 suspects tied to West African organized crime networks, groups like Black Axe that are responsible for a […]
Interpol officials said it uncovered a crime-as-a-service network in Argentina run by 196 people that provided website domains and money laundering support to West African organized crime groups like Black Axe.
Law enforcement agencies from 22 countries helped identify 263 suspects and arrested 58 individuals linked to cybercrime networks coordinated by African crime groups. [...]
A Jersey City resident is facing charges for his alleged role as a money mule for overseas cyberscammers who stole millions from elderly New Yorkers.
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok, ByteDance, and affiliated companies over allegations that they violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). [...]
TikTok will pay $400 million to settle U.S. claims that it violated child privacy laws by collecting data from users under 13. The U.S. Department of Justice announced that TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit over children’s privacy. “Today, the Department of Justice announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok, ByteDance, […]
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced on Friday that ByteDance-owned TikTok will pay $400 million to settle a 2024 lawsuit accusing the company of violating child privacy laws in the country. As part of the settlement, the social media platform will pay $300 million immediately, and an additional $100 million "upon entry of an order vacating a prior consent decree entered against
NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE, and EPA warn of active AI-assisted attacks against Siemens S7 PLCs across US critical infrastructure sectors. Five U.S. federal agencies issued a joint advisory this week warning of an active hacking campaign against Siemens S7 Series programmable logic controllers. The advisory, CISA AA26-231A, is co-signed by NSA, FBI, DOE, and EPA […]
A joint cybersecurity advisory released by multiple U.S. government agencies warns that threat actors are using AI-generated exploitation scripts to target exposed Siemens S7 Series PLCs across critical infrastructure sectors.Key TakeawaysUnattributed threat actors are exploiting known weaknesses and unnecessary internet exposure to conduct reconnaissance and possible pre-positioning for future disruptive attacks against Siemens S7 Series PLCs.The attackers are leveraging AI to build and refine…
The National Security Agency (NSA), FBI and other federal agencies said the campaign is targeting Siemens S7 Series PLCs and was being fueled by “AI-assisted development” alongside exploitation of known vulnerabilities.
The FBI said Tuesday that the Medusa ransomware gang has breached more than 500 critical infrastructure organizations in the United States since June 2021. [...]
