Cybercrime
Operation Endgame's latest phase takes out Amadey and StealC's shared infrastructure, with Europol and Microsoft reporting 326 servers actioned, 142 domains seized, and roughly 27 million stolen credentials recovered.
Cybercrime
Another individual-conviction milestone in the Scattered Spider law-enforcement track: two alleged members admitted unauthorised access to Transport for London's network on the opening day of their trial, with sentencing set for July.
Cybercrime
A Federal Court ruling lets Canada's intelligence service reach into infected routers and IoT gear to neutralize two foreign-run botnets — a new regulatory precedent for intelligence-agency-led botnet-cleanup operations.
Cybercrime
Operation Endgame's multi-month coordinated action takes down another major distribution backbone, seizing more than a hundred servers and remediating nearly 15,000 compromised WordPress sites worldwide.
Cybercrime
Spain's National Police arrested a suspect accused of publishing personal data of officials from its most sensitive bodies — including the cyber agency INCIBE, the police, Civil Guard and prosecutors — a doxxing campaign police say endangered both the individuals and their institutions.
Malware
McAfee Labs says WeedHack, a free-to-start Minecraft malware-as-a-service, has infected over 116,000 systems since January via fake mods pushed on YouTube and through SEO poisoning — and some buyers are using its remote-access tools to spy on and harass other players.