Europol has warned that a surge in demand for data on the cybercrime underground is fuelling an underground economy built on fraud, ransomware, child exploitation and extortion. Published yesterday, its 2025 Internet Organised Crime Assessment report is based on intelligence gathered from the policing group’s own investigations, the EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment...Read More
New service aims to protect businesses from future quantum threats. Orange Business and Toshiba Europe have launched France’s first commercial quantum-safe network service in Paris. The Orange Quantum Defender, now living in the greater Paris region, aims to shield organisations from cyber threats posed by future quantum computing capabilities. The service combines Toshiba’s Quantum Key...Read More
Ransomware is predicted to cost victims around $275 billion annually by 2031, according to Cybersecurity Ventures. Yet, despite this growing threat, most organizations’ data protection strategies remain narrowly focused on mission-critical systems—typically stored as block data—while neglecting one of the most vulnerable and expansive targets: Unstructured file data. This is because it is way too...Read More
Coco Gauff’s Victory Tour Marred by Cybercrime Attack In a shocking turn of events, tennis sensation Coco Gauff fell victim to cybercrime just days after her historic French Open win. Gauff, who recently clinched her maiden French Open title, discovered that her social media account had been hacked. The 21-year-old took to Instagram to warn...Read More
As Nigeria marks Democracy Day today, the heads of missions of the United States (U.S.), United Kingdom (UK), Canada, Finland and Norway have advised the Federal Government to prevent misuse of the Cybercrimes Act, to protect free speech and economic growth. In an article by Richard Mills (Jr) of the U.S. Embassy, Richard Montgomery of...Read More
More than 1,000 malicious IP addresses in Singapore were taken down during a four-month operation led by Interpol targeting cybercriminal activities around the world, as per reports. Representational image of a hacker. Photo courtesy: Clint Patterson/Unsplash The joint operation, known as Operation Secure, took place between January and April 2025 and involved law enforcement agencies...Read More
Jun 12, 2025Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Active Directory Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new account takeover (ATO) campaign that leverages an open-source penetration testing framework called TeamFiltration to breach Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) user accounts. The activity, codenamed UNK_SneakyStrike by Proofpoint, has affected over 80,000 targeted user accounts across hundreds of organizations’...Read More
Exclusive: Waiwhetu Medical Centre confirms ransomware attack INC Ransom lists a Kiwi medical centre on its leak site, with 110 gigabytes of allegedly stolen data published to the darknet. The INC Ransom ransomware operation has listed the Waiwhetu Medical Centre, based in Lower Hutt in New Zealand’s Wellington Region, as a victim on its darknet...Read More
The Top Ten cyber crime news summaries on The420 are meticulously curated by Future Crime Researchers from the Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF) and powered by Algoritha Security Pvt. Ltd. These summaries feature the most critical cyber crime developments from around the world. Keep reading—and stay safe. 1. Three Arrested After Corporate Executive Loses ₹3.16...Read More
A global law enforcement crackdown on information-stealing malware led to the arrest of 32 suspects and the dismantling of more than 20,000 malicious IP addresses and domains linked to cybercrime. The operation, which ran from January to April, led to the arrest of 18 suspects in Vietnam who were allegedly involved in illegal cyber activities,...Read More
