Interpol takes down 1,300 mostly European servers linked to cybercrime
Interpol says it took down more than 1,300 infected servers. The servers had been linked to suspicious IP addresses and URLs.
During 'Operation Synergia,' Interpol managed to identify 1,300 servers used for cybercrime. The exact activities varied from phishing to ransomware. More than 70 percen... Read more
Phishing kits from 16shop created 70,000 victims in 43 countries
The administrator of platform 16shop was arrested last week, Interpol reports. 16shop was a Phishing-as-a-Service (PaaS) platform on which phishing kits were traded.
Interpol reports in a statement that the administrator of the platform 16shop was arrested last week in Indonesia. It is said to ... Read more
‘Dutch hacker steals personal data of millions of Austrian citizens’
The Amsterdam Prosecutor's Office disclosed that a 25-year-old Dutch man was arrested in late November on suspicion of stealing personal data from tens of millions of people worldwide, including most of Austria's population.
The data was allegedly offered for sale. The cybercriminal landed on t... Read more