Law enforcement across Europe dismantled Thursday a cybercrime organization that earned millions through botnets, whose purpose was to create a network of infected computers from which to deploy malware and ransomware against its targets.

United States authorities have dismantled what the FBI described as “likely the world’s largest botnet ever.” The malicious 911 S5 botnet, which infected over 19 million IP addresses worldwide, enabled billions of dollars in pandemic and unemployment fraud and provided access to child exploitation materials.

The European Union announced Tuesday sanctions against a news outlet that disseminates anti-Ukraine propaganda, the site’s leader, and a former Ukrainian politician who was charged with treason, denaturalized, and exiled to Russia.

At 13, Lioska Lesasuyan had his eye blown out and lost both his arms when he started playing with a rock on the ground, which turned out to be a British army explosive device.

European parliamentarians are questioning whether the United Arab Emirates should have been taken off the “gray list” of countries at risk of money laundering and terrorist financing, following revelations that Dubai property owners include a host of dubious characters like drug lords and sanctioned businessmen.

A Moroccan cybercrime ring has taken a liking to gift card fraud, stealing victims’ personal information and using it to buy and sell gift cards for profit, in a venture that generates the group up to US$100,000 per day, according to a Microsoft intelligence report.

Rwandan journalist John Williams Ntwali spent his career holding authorities to account –– and many believe he was killed for it.

Italian officials have inaugurated a pivotal office in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, that will act as a central hub, facilitate the coordination, monitoring, and implementation of strategies to combat human trafficking, Italian State Police said Tuesday in a statement.

A court in Malta formally charged ex prime minister Joseph Muscat on Tuesday with money laundering, fraud, conspiracy, bribery, and corruption in public office in a case concerning the privatization of three public hospitals in Malta and Gozo.

First came the bombers, then the helicopter gunships, and finally the ground troops to clear the villages of residents.