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Claimed arrests of alleged operators and the disclosure gaps around jurisdiction, charges and identities.
The Justice Department searched more than 40 Texas laptop farms serving North Korean IT workers and seized over 180 company-shipped computers. Prosecutors count at least 70 victim companies. For employers, the shipping address is now a control point.
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Two Dominican nationals were extradited to the US on Sept. 30 to face conspiracy charges over a sextortion scheme aimed at Puerto Rico victims. They had been arrested 42 days earlier, on Aug. 19, and both are presumed innocent.
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German authorities led by Karlsruhe's Cybercrime Centre have cut off 13,888 phone numbers used in investment fraud, 9,304 of them in the last three months. They say the shutdowns now run as a standing process that combines criminal, police and telecom-regulatory powers.
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Aikido says the pair, both in their early 20s, ran TeamPCP's npm supply chain campaigns with a worm they cloned from Shai-Hulud. Whoever wrote the original is still unidentified, and the code is still published.
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Police allege a small number of trusted components carried the compromise into more than 1000 organisations, and the charge sheet puts the heaviest sentencing exposure on the money laundering count, well above anything tied to the code itself.
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