Five people have been detained and servers have been seized after police shut down the Lolek bulletproof hosting firm for allegedly supporting Netwalker ransomware attacks and other illegal operations, according to BleepingComputer.
In a statement, Europol said that the Central Cybercrime Bureau of Poland under the direction of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Katowice took legal action this week against LolekHosted.net, a secure hosting platform used by criminals to launch worldwide cyberattacks.
A statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, however, provides more information about the police investigation and states that a Polish national named Artur Karol Grabowski was arrested yesterday for running LolekHosted.
"LolekHosted clients used its services to execute approximately 50 NetWalker ransomware attacks on victims located all over the world, including in the Middle District of Florida," the DOJ said in a statement.
New attacks with the updated SysUpdate toolkit have been deployed by Chinese advanced persistent threat operation Budworm, also known as APT27, Emissary Panda, Bronze Union, Lucky Mouse, Iron Tiger, and Red Phoenix, against an Asian government and a Middle East-based telecommunications provider, reports The Hacker News.
Forty-five malicious NPM and PyPI packages have been deployed by threat actors to facilitate extensive data theft operations as part of a campaign that commenced on Sept. 12, according to BleepingComputer.
Sixty thousand emails from U.S. State Department accounts were noted by a staffer working for Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., to have been exfiltrated by Chinese threat actors during the widespread compromise of Microsoft email accounts that commenced in May, according to Reuters.