US disrupts global botnets affecting more than three million devicesA major international operation has successfully taken down four large botnets. These networks infected over three million devices worldwid...
20 Mar, 2026, 09.07 AM IST
Cryptocurrency fraud ring busted in Spain after laundering $540 million, Europol saysEuropol said Spanish police led the operation against the criminal network, and that law enforcement agencies from France, Estonia and the ...
30 Jun, 2025, 03.42 PM IST
AI 'reshaping' organised crime, warns EuropolArtificial intelligence is turbocharging organised crime, from creating child sexual abuse images to money laundering via cryptocurrency, E...
18 Mar, 2025, 07.07 PM IST
Encrypted phone service 'Encrochat' shutdown leads to 6,500 arrests: EuropolThe system had an estimated 60,000 users when it shut down abruptly in June 2020, and Europol revealed the following month that law enforce...
27 Jun, 2023, 02.46 PM IST
Europol sounds alarm about criminal use of ChatGPT, sees grim outlookWith its ability to reproduce language patterns to impersonate the style of speech of specific individuals or groups, the chatbot could be ...
27 Mar, 2023, 08.02 PM IST
CBI Probe has reduced crypto scam in Austria: Andreas Holzer"CBI recently conducted searches on a call centre in Shadi Khampur village in West Delhi where victims from foreign countries were duped by...
20 Oct, 2022, 11.55 PM IST
Spain arrests 'one of Europe's biggest money launderers'He was detained Monday "as a result of an international law enforcement operation led by the Spanish Guardia Civil. Two of his associates w...
15 Sep, 2022, 03.04 PM IST
800 arrested worldwide in huge crime sting: EuropolPolice arrested 800 people in a huge global sting involving encrypted phones used by criminals that were secretly planted by law enforcemen...
08 Jun, 2021, 02.24 PM IST
EU police agency Europol warns of fake coronavirus vaccines"Once a legitimate vaccine enters the market, counterfeited versions of the specific vaccine brand are expected to circulate rapidly," the ...
04 Dec, 2020, 10.19 PM IST
IS planning car bombs in Europe: ReportEuropol's report, outlining the changing modus operandi of the terror group, warned that more foreign fighters would return to the EU as IS...
03 Dec, 2016, 05.20 PM IST
Islamic State may target Europe again with 'Mumbai-style' attacks: ReportThe Islamic State (IS) terror group is planning 'Mumbai-style' attacks in Europe after the Paris massacre last November, a report by the Eu...
26 Jan, 2016, 03.06 AM IST
ISIS plans 'large-scale' Mumbai-style attacks in Europe: ReportIn Mumbai there were 10 attackers, in Paris nine. The Mumbai attacks resulted in 166 deaths while the Paris carnage killed 130 people.
25 Jan, 2016, 10.57 PM IST
Islamic State web accounts to be blocked by new European police teamA Europe-wide police team is being formed to track and block social media accounts linked to the Islamic State from next month.
22 Jun, 2015, 01.50 PM IST
India biggest victim of Ramnit bug: SymantecOne of the most powerful Ramnit features, it monitors the victim's web browsing and detects when they visit certain web pages like online b...
25 Feb, 2015, 07.02 PM IST
- Internet main tool for organised crime: Europol chief
The Internet has become a major tool in European organised crime, which as well as cybercrime uses it for drugs and human trafficking and m...
04 May, 2011, 03.45 PM IST
- Britain hub of Islamic terrorism: EU report
Britain's controversial foreign and military policy has made UK the hub of Islamic terrorism across Europe, and turned the country into a f...
18 May, 2008, 12.57 PM IST
- UK centre of Islamist terror in Europe: Europol
Britain has emerged as the focal point of Islamist terror in Europe, according to Europol, the European police force.
28 Apr, 2008, 04.04 PM IST