European Authorities Shutter Cybercrime Service Fueling Thousands of Online Scams
Seven suspects are now in custody after a cross-border crackdown dismantled a cybercrime service that powered more than 3,000 online scams across Europe, authorities said. Investigators seized servers, domains, and cryptocurrency wallets worth tens of thousands of euros, cutting off infrastructure that enabled fraud on a massive scale. The operation codenamed “SIMCARTEL”, conducted by authorities from Austria, Estonia, and Latvia, uncovered a criminal network that provided essential technical infrastructure enabling cybercriminals to conduct large-scale fraud operations. The operation’s scale demonstrates the industrial nature of modern cybercrime, where specialized service providers supply the technical capabilities that lower-level criminals lack.
AWS outage crashes Amazon, PrimeVideo, Fortnite, Perplexity and more
AWS outage has taken down millions of websites, including Amazon.com, PrimeVideo, Perplexity AI, Canva and more. The outage started approx 30 minutes ago and it’s affecting consumers in all regions, including the United States and Europe. According to AWS Health page, Amazon is aware of major disruption affecting multiple services. “We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API. We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause,” AWS noted.
An amateur satellite tracker accidentally discovered a subset of classified military SpaceX satellites that are transmitting data on the wrong radio frequency. According to NPR, Canadian Scott Tilley found the mysterious signal while working on his hobby of monitoring satellites at home, when he inadvertently set his system to scan for radio frequencies that usually didn’t have traffic. To his surprise, he saw a signal emanating from space in the 2025-2110 MHz band, which satellites use to receive data from ground stations.
China Accuses US of Cyberattack on National Time Center
China on Sunday accused the U.S. National Security Agency of carrying out cyberattacks on its national time center following an investigation, saying any damage to related facilities could have disrupted network communications, financial systems and power supply. The Ministry of State Security alleged in a WeChat post that the U.S. agency had exploited vulnerabilities in the messaging services of a foreign mobile phone brand to steal sensitive information from devices of the National Time Service Center’s staff in 2022. It did not specify the brand.
Collin Aerospace, a division of Raytheon Technologies Corporation (RTX), was posted on the Everest leak site on Friday, although the entry also dates back to October 14th and 15th. The Everest ransomware cartel, which also made waves last month with a purported attack on luxury automaker BMW, claims to have exfiltrated a 50+ GB database from one of the world’s leading commercial and military defense companies. One section of the five-part entry is titled “MUSE-INSECURE: Inside Collins Aerospaces Security Failure,” while another section claims to offer up an “FTP Access List.”
