Huawei Accused of Using ‘Backdoor’ to Spy on Pakistan
A US business filed court documents claiming they created a data exchange system for the Lahore police only for Huawei to demand remote access from China.
Police Take Down Pirate Streaming App with 100mn Users
Mobdro was believed to have been the most downloaded pirate streaming app in the world.
Second Cell C Exec Arrested for $8.6mn Fraud; Operator Says More Employees Were Involved
Adriaan Pillay is accused of collecting kickbacks from an IT supplier which were then shared with his boss.
World’s Largest Dark Web Market Taken Down
DarkMarket was said to have enabled USD140mn of transactions between 2,400 vendors and almost 500,000 users.
Police Take Down the ‘Favorite’ VPN of Criminals
Safe-Inet advertised its ‘bulletproof’ virtual private network services on black hat forums.
Zoom Employee Charged with Sabotaging Meetings about Tiananmen Square Massacre
Xinjiang Jin was hired to assist Chinese law enforcement but faked evidence of users supporting terrorism and child pornography.
Inconsistent Rules for Supplying Digital Evidence Complicates Cross-Border Police Work
A report from Europol’s cross-border digital evidence team shows how the nationality of a business affects the data it will supply.
Europol Uses Video Game to Teach Investigators How to Request Data from Telcos
The ‘immersive’ game asks players to query foreign ISPs and social media platforms following a hypothetical terrorist attack.
Court Victory for Alleged Telco Fraudster Will Discourage Future Police Action
Two Maltese operators suffered losses of USD32,300 after Vodafone Greece SIMs were used to make calls to unallocated UK numbers.
When Does Social Media Snooping Go Too Far?
Telcos have good reason to use social media to gather data about users. However, even governments find it hard to assess the risks of placing too much reliance on that kind of data.