Voici les actualités principales de la semaine passée concernant le cybercrime.
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U.S. Charges Russian Man as Boss of LockBit Ransomware Group
The United States joined the United Kingdom and Australia today in sanctioning 31-year-old Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged leader of the infamous ransomware group LockBit. The U.S. Department of Justice also indicted Khoroshev and charged him with using Lockbit to attack more than 2,000 victims and extort at least $100 million in ransomware payments.
Ransomware mastermind LockBitSupp reveled in his anonymity-now he’s been ID’d
The US places a $10 million bounty for the arrest of Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
Lockbit’s seized site comes alive to tease new police announcements
The NCA, FBI, and Europol have revived a seized LockBit ransomware data leak site to hint at new information being revealed by law enforcement this Tuesday.
New series of measures issued against the administrator of LockBit | Europol
The administrator and developer of LockBit, a Russian national, is now subject to a series of asset freezes and travel bans issued by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, alongside the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.Prosecutors in the United States have also unsealed an…
Deutsche Polizeibehörde nutzte Millionen Fotos für Gesichtserkennung
Laut einem Bericht griff das Bundeskriminalamt für Tests einer Software auf eine Polizeidatenbank zurück. Dieses Vorgehen ist umstritten.
NATO and the EU formally condemned APT28 cyber espionage
NATO and the European Union formally condemned cyber espionage operations carried out by the Russia-linked APT28 against European countries.
Austrian scammers escape investors, but not law enforcement | Europol
Between December 2017 and February 2018, the scammers pretended to have set up a genuine online trading company which had issued a new cryptocurrency. The initial coin offering (ICO) amounted to an offer of 10 million tokens – or respective rights to the new currency.
Europol Hacked? IntelBroker Claims Major Law Enforcement Breach
The notorious IntelBroker hacker claims to have successfully breached the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol).

Massive webshop fraud ring steals credit cards from 850,000 people
A massive network of 75,000 fake online shops called ‘BogusBazaar’ tricked over 850,000 people in the US and Europe into making purchases, allowing the criminals to steal credit card information and attempt to process an estimated $50 million in fake orders.
Arrêté en France, l’un des hackers les plus recherchés d’Europe ira en prison en Finlande
Aleksanteri Julius Kivimäki a été condamné par la justice finlandaise à six ans de prison. Ce cybercriminel recherché par Europol avait été arrêté par hasard par la police française. L’affaire est historique pour la Finlande.
Belgium to police Telegram under new EU tech law
Platform claims to have more than 800 million monthly active users globally.