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19 stories taggedlaw enforcement.

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Threat Intelligence

Ukrainian police shut down 94 scam call centres, seize $2 million in cash

A joint operation with German investigators dismantled fake investment platforms and bank-impersonation scams targeting victims across the EU.

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Policy & Regulation

Cybercriminals Now Run Like Franchises. Law Enforcement Still Fights Like It's 2015.

At Black Hat 2026, a former White House cybersecurity adviser laid out why coordinated ransomware gangs and scam networks are winning, and what it would take to actually slow them down.

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Breaches

UK Police Legal Database Leaked to Dark Web After July Breach

Names, work emails and organisational details of officers, criminal justice staff and government partners were posted online after intruders hit the Police National Legal Database.

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Threat Intelligence

German Police Shut Down Kratos Phishing Network, But Experts Say the Pause Will Be Brief

Authorities seized more than 200 servers and arrested a developer in Indonesia. Security researchers say the 1,800 customers who used the service are already shopping for a replacement.

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Identity & Access

Police shut down Kratos, the phishing kit built to hijack Microsoft 365 logins

German and US investigators dismantled the kit's servers, and Indonesian police arrested its alleged creator, ending a service that helped criminals slip past two-factor login checks.

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Threat Intelligence

German and US police pull the plug on Kratos, a phishing kit rented to 1,800 crooks

Investigators seized more than 200 servers and arrested the developer in Indonesia, ending a service that ran roughly 15,000 fake Microsoft login campaigns every month.

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Threat Intelligence

Suspected Chinese and Indian Spies Both Targeted Pakistani Police, Researchers Say

A two-year campaign hit Balochistan Police and other law enforcement bodies, with servers holding criminal records among the compromised assets.

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Policy & Regulation

Interpol Sweep Nets 5,811 Fraud Arrests and $293 Million Across 97 Countries

Operation First Light 2026 identified more than 142,000 victims of romance, investment and business email scams between January and April.

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Policy & Regulation

Supreme Court Extends Fourth Amendment Shield to Cell-Site Location Data

A geofence warrant case gives the Court a vehicle to rule that historical location records tied to a phone are constitutionally protected — full stop.

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Threat Intelligence

Law Enforcement and Microsoft Tear Down Command Infrastructure Behind Amadey and StealC

Hundreds of C2 servers went dark in a coordinated takedown targeting the shared hosting backbone used by two prolific infostealer families.

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Policy & Regulation

CSIS Got a Warrant to Reach Into Canadian Routers and Kill Two Botnets

A Federal Court ruling unsealed June 15 is the first public use of CSIS threat-reduction warrant powers against infected infrastructure on Canadian soil.

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Policy & Regulation

Operation Endgame Sweep Takes Down SocGholish Loader Infrastructure

Dutch-led coalition disrupts servers and remediates 14,971 compromised WordPress sites, in the latest tranche of the multinational takedown effort.

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Threat Intelligence

Week in Brief: Google Security Cuts, AudiA6 Forum Axed, Coupang's $400M Fine

ICS exposure holds flat while the attack surface grows, IBM and AT&T face hack cover-up allegations, and Microsoft quietly drops an AI incident-response playbook.

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Threat Intelligence

Sniper Dz Phishing-as-a-Service Goes Dark After INTERPOL Sweep Nets 201 Arrests

Operation Ramz dismantled a decade-old PhaaS storefront and pulled in its alleged operator, 'Guedz', across 13 MENA jurisdictions.

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Threat Intelligence

AudiA6 Crypto Laundromat Pulled Offline After Washing €336M for Ransomware Crews

Europol says the takedown severs a major cash-out pipeline tied to ransomware payouts and underground markets.

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