Law enforcement in 10 European countries seized 15 servers that hosted VPNLab.net’s service that offers protected communications and internet access but was used for criminal activities such as ransomware deployment as well as different types of cybercrime, Europol reported on Wednesday.

The U.S. returned the looted Roman-era “Veiled Head of a Female” and a 7th century B.C.  golden bowl and ivory plaque to their countries of origin after their owner, a billionaire and hedge fund manager, agreed to turn them over to avoid further prosecution.

In a joint investigation spanning over 18 months, Italian, Greek, and Albanian authorities arrested 29 suspected members of a transnational smuggling network that had trafficked more than 1,100 migrants, Europol reported on Wednesday.

After the number of cyber attacks on schools’ networks doubled during the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced the launching of a new initiative to divert young people away from cybercrime.

Starting next month, the U.S. will ban Mexican fishing vessels from calling in U.S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico over concerns about illegal fishing.

A press club within the Indian-administered Kashmir region was forcibly taken over on Saturday by pro-government journalists and police before being permanently shut down by authorities.

After receiving an anonymous email alert, Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) reported that they arrested 27 suspected members of a criminal group accused of sexual and labor exploitation of women and saved 19 of its victims.

Two female human rights activists in Bahrain and Jordan were the victims of the Israeli NSO Group’s notorious spyware, Pegasus, an investigation by Front Line Defenders (FLD) revealed on Monday.

Researchers at Columbia University and CUNY’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice have found that the United States is a major destination for illegally trafficked tiger parts, which are highly sought after for their use in Chinese traditional medicine, according to a new study they published this month.

A member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB), an American neo-Nazi white supremacist prison gang, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges and is expected to serve 22 years in concurrence with his current 30-year sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Friday.