Authorities in the United States and France have intensified their crackdown on the cybercrime marketplace BreachForums, arresting key figures and issuing indictments in a coordinated international effort to dismantle the platform’s operations.

An international law enforcement operation has dismantled AVCheck, a major Counter Antivirus (CAV) service used by cybercriminals to test malware against commercial antivirus solutions.

On May 27, 2025, a coordinated international law enforcement operation led by the DoJ, in collaboration with Dutch and Finnish authorities, resulted in the seizure of three publicly disclosed domains—AvCheck[.]net, Cryptor[.]biz, and Crypt[.]guru.

The FBI, DoD, and international partners dismantled Danabot’s infrastructure and identified key operators. Danabot was used to distribute malware like LockBit, Ursnif, and Zloader.

In a major disruption to global cybercrime infrastructure, the notorious Haowang Guarantee (formerly Huione Guarantee) black market has been shut down following Telegram’s enforcement action.

A Kosovo national, Liridon Masurica, has been extradited to the United States to face federal charges for allegedly operating an online criminal marketplace that facilitated large-scale identity theft and financial fraud targeting U.S. citizens.

Two individuals have been arrested in a joint international operation dismantling JokerOTP, a sophisticated phishing tool used to intercept 2FA codes and steal over £7.5 million.

German authorities suspect that Russian state-backed hackers were behind a recent cyberattack on a prominent Berlin-based research institute focused on Eastern Europe, the second such incident involving the organization in recent months.

Apple was fined €150 million ($162 million) by French regulators on Monday for anticompetitive practices involving how it deploys an app tracking tool protecting users from targeted advertising.

Blockchain intelligence platform TRM Labs reports that U.S. state investigators, primarily the FBI, uncovered laundering patterns of amounts linked to 'romance baiting' operators, enabling them to file a dual legal forfeiture.