Poliisit johtivat oikeutta harhaan hankkiessaan lupia kehuttuun Anom-peiteoperaatioon, selviää Ylen ja kahden ulkomaisen median saamista asiakirjoista.

Yhdysvaltain liittovaltion poliisi FBI:n johtamassa operaatiossa houkuteltiin rikolliset käyttämään Anom-merkkisiä puhelimia. Laitteet lähettivät kaikki tiedot salaa viranomaisille.

Peiteoperaatio päättyi laajoihin pidätyksiin kesällä 2021. Se oli erityisesti Suomen poliisin näkökulmasta historiallisen tehokas isku: Anom käytännössä pysäytti amfetamiinin maahantuonnin väliaikaisesti.

The U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) said on Wednesday that a man was arrested in connection to the ransomware attack that has caused delays and disruptions at several European airports since the weekend.

The hack, which began Friday, targeted check-in systems provided by Collins Aerospace, causing delays at Brussels, Berlin, and Dublin airports, as well as London’s Heathrow, which lasted until yesterday.

While the NCA did not name the arrested man, the agency said he is “in his forties” and that he was arrested in the southern county of West Sussex on Tuesday under the country’s Computer Misuse Act “as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace.”

A new method and proof-of-concept tool called EDR-Freeze demonstrates that evading security solutions is possible from user mode with Microsoft’s Windows Error Reporting (WER) system.

The technique eliminates the need of a vulnerable driver and puts security agents like endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools into a state of hibernation.

By using the WER framework together with the MiniDumpWriteDump API, security researcher TwoSevenOneThree (Zero Salarium) found a way to suspend indefinitely the activity of EDR and antivirus processes indefinitely.

(KTLA) — A male juvenile reportedly involved in a massive and “sophisticated” cyberattack on multiple Las Vegas casino properties, including MGM Resorts and Caesars, that cost the companies hundreds of millions of dollars, is in custody, authorities announced late last week.

The costly scheme played out in 2023, between August and October, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a Sept. 19 news release.