Russia is not behind the ransomware attack that left part of the U.S. East Coast without gas, but a criminal group based in Russia is, U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday, announcing that a new task force will from now on prosecute such hackers “to the full extent of the law.”

The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced that it has imposed sanctions on seven Lebanese individuals involved in the financial infrastructure of the country’s Shia Iran-backed “Party of God”, Hezbollah, along with its financial arm, Al-Qard al-Hassan (AQAH).

A federal judge in Texas dismissed on Tuesday the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy claim, arguing that the type of threat the organization faced from the lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Leticia James did not qualify for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections.

Politically influential people made up a significant portion of the clients at an offshore bank in the Isle of Man according to a Brookings Institute researcher who analyzed data from a breach published by Distributed Denial of Secrets.

A criminal group in Serbia has most likely used an industrial meat grinder to get rid of bodies of its victims, Serbian police and forensic experts said after having detected a number of different human DNA samples on the machine and the walls of the room.

Mexican authorities arrested the mayor of Asunción Nochixtlán, a town some 300 kilometers southeast of Mexico City, and two others believed to be responsible for the disappearance of British-Mexican activist Claudia Uruchurtu Cruz who took part in anti-corruption protests the day she went missing.

A parliamentary ethics commissioner announced on Monday she was investigating who financed U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s luxurious Christmas 2019 vacation with his fiancée on a Caribbean island.

The easing of COVID restrictions may have contributed to the recent rise in smuggling incidents in the Indian Ocean which saw everything from old Soviet arms to African psychotropic plants illegally crossing its waters in March.

Spanish police arrested 17 suspected members of a criminal network that allegedly made about 10 million euro (more than US$12 million) mixing saffron with other herbs and chemicals and selling it as pure, high-quality saffron, Europol said.

For the first time in its history, the Catholic Church beatified a judge, bringing late Sicilian magistrate Rosario Angelo Livatino closer to sainthood more than 30 years after the Sicilian mafia killed him in 1990.