Tag: law
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FBI and Europol Seize LeakBase Forum Used to Trade Stolen Credentials
A joint law enforcement operation has dismantled LeakBase, one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals to buy and sell stolen data and cybercrime tools.The LeakBase forum, per the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ), had over 142,000 members and more than 215,000 messages between members as of December 2025. Those attempting to access the…
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Europol-Led Operation Takes Down Tycoon 2FA Phishing-asService Linked to 64,000 Attacks
Tycoon 2FA, one of the prominent phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkits that allowed cybercriminals to stage adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) credential harvesting attacks at scale, was dismantled by a coalition of law enforcement agencies and security companies.The subscription-based phishing kit, which first emerged in August 2023, was described by Europol as one of the largest phishing First seen on…
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Operation Leak: Authorities Dismantle LeakBase Forum, Secure User Data and IP Logs
The FBI, working alongside international law enforcement agencies, has successfully dismantled the notorious cybercriminal forum LeakBase. Dubbed >>Operation Leak,<< this coordinated global effort resulted in the seizure of the platform's domains and its underlying infrastructure. LeakBase was a prominent online destination where cybercriminals gathered to buy, sell, and trade stolen databases, corporate data, and personal…
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Europol-coordinated action disrupts Tycoon2FA phishing platform
An international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol has disrupted Tycoon2FA, a major phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform linked to tens of millions of phishing messages each month. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/europol-coordinated-action-disrupts-tycoon2fa-phishing-platform/
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Sprawling FBI, European operation takes down Leakbase cybercriminal forum
The FBI and European law enforcement agencies carried out a global crackdown on a cybercrime forum where criminals bought and sold stolen credentials and exploits of software vulnerabilities. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/leakbase-cybercrime-fbi-europe-takedown
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Global Takedown Neutralizes Tycoon2FA Phishing Service
Law enforcers and industry partners have taken down notorious phishing-as-a-service platform Tycoon2FA First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/global-takedown-tycoon2fa-phishing/
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Shadow AI vs Managed AI: What’s the Difference? FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, chatgpt, ciso, cloud, computer, control, credentials, credit-card, data, data-breach, framework, google, injection, intelligence, Internet, law, LLM, malicious, mitre, monitoring, network, password, phishing, phone, risk, software, switch, threat, tool, training, vulnerabilityMar 04, 2026 – – Quick Facts: Shadow AI vs. Managed AIShadow AI is a visibility gap: It refers to any AI tool used by employees that the IT department doesn’t know about. Most companies have 10x more AI tools in use than they realize.Managed AI is a “Paved Path”: It uses approved, secure versions…
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The DocuSign Email That Wasn’t A Three-Redirect Credential Harvest
<div cla TL;DR Attackers sent a convincing DocuSign notification with a “Review & Sign” button that chained through Google Maps redirects to an Amazon S3-hosted credential harvesting page. The redirect chain defeated URL scanners, and real law-firm footers added legitimacy. IRONSCALES Adaptive AI flagged the behavioral mismatch between sender infrastructure and brand identity before the first…
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The DocuSign Email That Wasn’t A Three-Redirect Credential Harvest
<div cla TL;DR Attackers sent a convincing DocuSign notification with a “Review & Sign” button that chained through Google Maps redirects to an Amazon S3-hosted credential harvesting page. The redirect chain defeated URL scanners, and real law-firm footers added legitimacy. IRONSCALES Adaptive AI flagged the behavioral mismatch between sender infrastructure and brand identity before the first…
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Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better
Law enforcement data shows profit-driven cybercrime is dominated by 35- to 44-year-olds, not script kiddies First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/turns_out_most_cybercriminals_are/
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30 Alleged Members of ‘The Com’ Arrested in Project Compass
The global law enforcement crackdown, which began in January 2025, also identified nearly 180 members of the notorious cybercriminal collective. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/30-alleged-members-the-com-arrested-project-compass
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Project Compass Operation Cracks Down on “The Com” Cybercrime Collective 30 Arrested, 179 Suspects Identified
An international law enforcement operation named Project Compass has launched a major offensive against >>The Com,<< a dangerous transnational virtual network (TVN). The operation, which began in January 2025, has successfully led to the arrest of 30 suspects and the identification of 179 potential perpetrators connected to the sprawling cybercrime collective. Led by the European…
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Vietnam Announces National Cybersecurity Firewall Plan Under New Digital Governance Law
Vietnam has announced plans to focus on building a cybersecurity firewall. The statement was delivered by Public Security Minister LÆ°Æ¡ng Tam Quang on Feb. 7, following the closing session of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s 14th National Congress. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/vietnam-cybersecurity-firewall/
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Senate Health Cyber Bill Clears Committee Hurdle
Bipartisan Bill Would Mandate Multifactor Authentication, Pen Testing. Proposed legislation that’s been kicking around Congress for the last few years that aims to help bolster cybersecurity of the healthcare sector cleared a critical hurdle on Thursday. But will the bill gain enough momentum to pass the full Senate, the House and be signed into law?…
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Researchers Unveil Aeternum C2 Infrastructure with Advanced Evasion and Persistence Tactics
For years, defenders have relied on a simple strategy to dismantle botnets find and seize their command-and-control (C2) servers. That weakness enabled global law enforcement operations to disrupt massive botnets such as Emotet, TrickBot, and QakBot. But a newly identified C2 framework,Aeternum, may render those tactics obsolete. Instead of using centralized servers or domains, Aeternum…
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Europol goes after The Com’s ransomware and extortion networks
Law enforcement agencies across 28 countries have spent the past year building cases against a loosely organized collective known as The Com, a decentralized network of mostly … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/27/europol-the-com-network-arrests/
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‘Project Compass’ Cracks Down on ‘The Com’: 30 Members of Notorious Cybercrime Gang Arrested
International law enforcement operation led by Europol targets network of teenagers and young adults involved in ransomware attacks, extortion and other crimes First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/project-compass-com-arrests/
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Project Compass is Europol’s new playbook for taking on The Com
Tags: lawOfficials said 30 perpetrators have been arrested in the past year, and global law enforcement cooperation is closing the gap. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/project-compass-the-com-europol/
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Police Target Violent Online Predators Incubated by the Com
28 Countries Join Forces to Pursue Violent Online Extremism Targeting Children. A global law enforcement initiative to coordinate the disruption of violent online extremism targeting minors and vulnerable individuals swept up 30 suspected members of The Com, the decentralized, largely Western adolescent cybercrime community. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/police-target-violent-online-predators-incubated-by-com-a-30856
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Police Target Violent Online Predators Incubated by the Com
28 Countries Join Forces to Pursue Violent Online Extremism Targeting Children. A global law enforcement initiative to coordinate the disruption of violent online extremism targeting minors and vulnerable individuals swept up 30 suspected members of The Com, the decentralized, largely Western adolescent cybercrime community. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/police-target-violent-online-predators-incubated-by-com-a-30856
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The Global Fight Over Who Controls Your Data Just Escalated, Here’s What the Numbers Say
A new diplomatic offensive against foreign privacy laws collides with fresh research showing that weakening data sovereignty protections is the last thing organizations need right now. The post The Global Fight Over Who Controls Your Data Just Escalated, Here’s What the Numbers Say appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-data-sovereignty-cloud-security-report/
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Chinese group’s ChatGPT use reveals worldwide harassment campaign against critics
OpenAI said a Chinese law enforcement agency uploaded reports to ChatGPT that details a worldwide digital operation to track and silence regime critics at home and abroad. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/chinese-chatgpt-online-harassment-campaign-against-critics-dissidents/
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Operation Red Card 2.0 Leads to 651 Arrests in Africa
In the latest operation targeting cybercrime groups, African law enforcement agencies cooperated with Interpol and cybersecurity firms to recover more than USD 4.3 million. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/operation-red-card-2-0-leads-to-651-arrests-in-africa
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US ‘committed’ to fighting transnational gangs behind Southeast Asian scam compounds: FBI
Scott Schelble, the deputy assistant director of the FBI’s International Operations Division, told reporters that he recently met with law enforcement officials in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to discuss the region’s scam operations. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/us-committed-to-fighting-southeast-asia-scam-compounds
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Global regulators say AI image tools don’t get a free pass on privacy rules
Watchdogs warn models that can generate realistic images of people must comply with data protection laws First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/privacy_watchdogs_ai_images/
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TDL 016 – Speed, Risk, and Responsibility in the Age of AI – Rafael Ramirez
Tags: access, ai, antivirus, automation, awareness, business, ciso, cloud, control, country, cyber, data, defense, detection, dns, firewall, governance, government, hacker, ibm, incident response, intelligence, Internet, law, linkedin, login, mfa, microsoft, network, risk, saas, service, skills, software, startup, strategy, technology, threat, tool, training, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-trustSummary In a recent episode of The Defenders Log, host David Redekop sat down with cyber security expert Rafael Ramirez to navigate the rapidly shifting landscape of AI security. As we move deeper into 2026, the duo explored how artificial intelligence has evolved from simple chatbots into powerful, autonomous “agentic” systems. The Double-Edged Sword of…