Initial Access Brokers: The Middlemen Selling Your Network to Ransomware Gangs
IABs breach networks and sell the keys on forums like Exploit and XSS for a few hundred to over $100,000. Here's how the market prices, verifies, and moves access.
Cybercrime
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FBI Seizes NetNut: How a 2-Million-Device Proxy Botnet Hid Inside Smart TVs
The FBI seized hundreds of domains tied to NetNut after Google and security researchers linked the residential proxy network to Popa, a 2-million-device botnet of smart TVs and streaming boxes.
Operation Endgame Hits SocGholish: FakeUpdates Takedown
Operation Endgame's June 2026 action against SocGholish shows why fake browser updates, compromised WordPress sites, and criminal loader infrastructure still matter to defenders.
How Europol Is Catching Cybercriminals in 2026
Europol does not usually kick down the door. It makes cybercrime investigations cross-border, evidence-rich, and harder for offenders to escape.
Netherlands Seized 800 Servers: Bulletproof Hosting Is Now a Sanctions Problem
Dutch investigators seized more than 800 servers in a sanctions case tied to Stark Industries. The lesson for defenders is simple: attacker infrastructure is a business ecosystem.
Violence-as-a-Service: How Organized Crime Borrowed the Cybercrime Playbook
Europol's OTF GRIMM has made 280 arrests in one year targeting criminal networks that outsource violence like a SaaS product. The model mirrors ransomware-as-a-service — and it's recruiting teenagers through Discord and encrypted apps.