A look at Interpol's innovation lab in Singapore for studying cybercrime, digital piracy, and more, and developing new techniques for bringing down criminals
Owen Walker / Financial Times :
Interpol says calling online scams “pig butchering”, a widely used phrase, is unhelpful as gangs “appear to have” created the phrase to describe victims
Experts say the catchall term for online fraud furthers harm against victims and could dissuade people …
Interpol says an operation across 95 countries took down 22K+ malicious IP addresses or servers linked to cyber threats and led to the arrest of 41 individuals
Interpol announced it arrested 41 individuals and taken down 1,037 servers and infrastructure running on 22,000 IP addresses …
Interpol shutters Indonesia-based “phishing-as-a-service” platform 16shop, used to create 150K phishing pages, compromising at least 70K people in 43 countries
A joint operation between Interpol and cybersecurity firms has led to an arrest and shutdown of the notorious 16shop phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform.
Interpol arrests three suspected members of Nigerian email scam group TMT and says the group's malware has infected 50K+ organizations in 150 countries
Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet :
Interpol rolls out new international voice ID database, four years in the making, with 192 law enforcement agencies participating in audio clip sharing
which is now being used to fuel the machine learning that is giving us #deepfakes, massive face and voice recognition databases, and more—is not seeming like the best idea we ever had. http://twitter....
Interpol-organized group takes down Simda, a botnet that controlled over 770K PCs worldwide
Botnet that enslaved 770,000 PCs worldwide comes crashing down — The Simda botnet that menaced 190 countries is no more. — Law enforcement groups and private security companies around …