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fromTheregister
1 week ago

Microsoft taps UK courts to dismantle cybercrime host RedVDS

Microsoft has taken its cybercrime fight to the UK in its first major civil action outside the US, moving to shut down RedVDS, a virtual desktop service used to power phishing and fraud at global scale. Redmond says it has filed parallel civil actions in the US and the UK, yanking RedVDS's marketplace and customer portal offline and seizing chunks of its infrastructure as part of a wider cross-border operation involving Europol and German law enforcement.
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fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago

Microsoft DCU uses UK courts to hunt down cyber criminals | Computer Weekly

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit disrupted the RedVDS cybercrime-as-a-service network, seizing domains and coordinating international law enforcement to halt large-scale fraud.
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fromIT Pro
3 months ago

Europol takes down SIM farm network that scammed thousands of victims

A Latvian cybercrime-as-a-service ring built SIM-based infrastructure, created nearly 50 million fake accounts, enabled widespread European fraud, leading to seven arrests.
fromThe Hacker News
3 months ago

Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide

Europol on Friday announced the disruption of a sophisticated cybercrime-as-a-service (CaaS) platform that operated a SIM farm and enabled its customers to carry out a broad spectrum of crimes ranging from phishing to investment fraud. The coordinated law enforcement effort, dubbed Operation SIMCARTEL, saw 26 searches carried out, resulting in the arrest of seven suspects and the seizure of 1,200 SIM box devices, which contained 40,000 active SIM cards. Five of those detained are Latvian nationals.
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