U.S. financial institutions reported over $1 billion in ransomware-related payments last year, majority of which were accounted for by Russian hackers, found a new analysis by the U.S. Treasury Department.

Portuguese police raided 55 locations throughout Lisbon and Porto and arrested nine individuals allegedly linked to one of the biggest drug traffickers in the country whose network is believed to have shipped tonnes of cocaine from South America to ports and airports in Portugal.

Despite an ongoing corruption trial, Benjamin Netanyahu retook his old seat as prime minister on Thursday after Israel’s latest round of elections two days earlier.

A former heavyweight boxer from Montenegro was charged on Monday in a U.S. court for trafficking over 20 tons of cocaine, one of the largest seizures in U.S. history, according to the Department of Justice’s statement.

The state-sponsored cyber programs of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea are the greatest strategic threats to Canadian online security, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security claims in its latest National Cyber Threat Assessment.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has launched a new toolkit on how to effectively investigate and prosecute the trafficking of people for the purpose of organ removal - a form of trafficking that has been persistently left in the dark, yet is detected in many countries around the world.

The European Commission proposed new legislation to tighten its gun laws in an effort to address the illegal trade in firearms which could rise due to the war in Ukraine.

The Central Bank of Iraq (CBI) has taken custody over a private bank whose majority owner had been misspending loans he took to finish a government project. The CBI asked the custodian to take legal measures against those who abused the bank’s funds.

The United States sanctioned Wednesday almost two dozen individuals and entities, including two influential government officials, who are implicated in what was described as the Russian Federation’s attempts to corrupt and capture Moldova’s political and economic institutions.

An Italian city council member from the municipality of Bari was arrested for a mafia affiliated vote buying scheme during an anti mafia sweep last week that saw 19 arrests between Puglia and Palermo, Italian state media reported.