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Operation Heart Blocker: Disruption action deals blow to criminal cyber network HeartSender

Posted on February 1, 2025February 1, 2025 by Dissent

During a disruption action on January 29, 2025, HeartSender servers and domains were seized by various police services. HeartSender is the name of a group of phishing software makers. The Cybercrime Team of the East Brabant police unit started an investigation at the end of 2022, after phishing software was found on the computer of…

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Law enforcement continues efforts to disrupt cybercrime forums and services

Posted on January 30, 2025 by Dissent

Law enforcement has been busy. As reported yesterday, Cracked and Nulled forums were seized along with services associated with them financially. Two suspects were arrested in Spain. Today, DOJ issued two press releases. The first was about yesterday’s seizures: Cracked and Nulled Marketplaces Disrupted in International Cyber Operation The Justice Department today announced its participation…

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Justice Department Seizes Cybercrime Website and Charges Its Administrators

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Dissent

Three Administrators Charged and Cryptocurrency Seized The Justice Department today announced the seizure of PopeyeTools, an illicit website and marketplace dedicated to selling stolen credit cards and other tools for carrying out cybercrime and fraud, and unsealed criminal charges against three PopeyeTools administrators: Abdul Ghaffar, 25, of Pakistan; Abdul Sami, 35, of Pakistan; and Javed…

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DDoS site Dstat.cc seized and two suspects arrested in Germany

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Dissent

Bill Toulas reports: The Dstat.cc DDoS review platform has been seized by law enforcement, and two suspects have been arrested after the service helped fuel distributed denial-of-service attacks for years. The seizure and arrests were conducted as part of “Operation PowerOFF,” an ongoing international law enforcement operation that targets DDoS-for-hire platforms, aka “booters” or “stressers,” to…

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FBI has conducted more than 30 disruption operations in 2024

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Dissent

Christian Vasquez reports: The FBI is seeing progress in the fight against ransomware gangs after conducting more than 30 disruption operations this year in which officials targeted the infrastructure used by those groups, one of the bureau’s top cybersecurity officials said Wednesday. Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said during CyberScoop’s…

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Russia arrests hacker accused of preventing electronic voting during local election

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Dissent

Funny how Russia doesn’t like it when someone interferes with their elections, huh? Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it had detained a Moscow resident for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks during local elections in September, targeting infrastructure in the capital and the Moscow region. According to the agency’s press service, the…

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