The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €251 million ($263.6M) over General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) violations arising from a 2018 personal data breach impacting 29 million Facebook accounts. […]
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Law enforcement agencies from 15 countries have taken 27 DDoS-for-hire services offline, also known as “booters” or “stressers,” arrested three administrators, and identified 300 customers of the platforms. […]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is distributing over $72 million in Epic Game Fortnite refunds for the company’s use of dark patterns to trick players into making unwanted purchases. […]
An international law enforcement operation codenamed ‘Operation Passionflower’ has shut down MATRIX, an encrypted messaging platform used by cybercriminals to coordinate illegal activities while evading police. […]
South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated to include DDoS attack functionality at a purchaser’s request. […]
An international law enforcement operation has dismantled a pirate streaming service that served over 22 million users worldwide and made €250 million ($263M) per month. […]
Law enforcement agencies in Africa arrested as part of ‘Operation Serengeti’ more than a thousand individuals suspected of being involved in major cybercriminal activities that caused close to $193 million in financial losses all over the world. […]
A Kansas City man has been indicted for allegedly hacking into computer networks and using this access to promote his cybersecurity services. […]
The U.S. has seized the cybercrime website ‘PopeyeTools’ and unsealed charges against three of its administrators, Abdul Ghaffar, Abdul Sami, and Javed Mirza, for selling stolen data. […]
A hacker responsible for stealing 119,754 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. authorities. […]