UK police, Europol, Dutch police, and others dismantle online spoofing service iSpoof and arrest 146 people, including the suspected mastermind (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Europol says it has arrested Russian national in Canada linked to LockBit ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure organizations and high-profile companies  —  Europol has announced today the arrest of a Russian national linked to LockBit ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations …

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
UK police arrest and charge a 17-year-old with computer misuse and breaches of bail, believed to be related to the recent Uber and Rockstar hacks  —  The City of London police announced on Twitter today the arrest of a British 17-year-old teen suspected of being involved in recent cyberattacks.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Researchers find 75 apps on Google Play and 10 on Apple’s App Store that engaged in ad fraud, collectively had 13M installs, and have since been removed  —  Security researchers have discovered 75 applications on Google Play and another ten on Apple’s App Store engaged in ad fraud.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Brave says it will hide and block cookie consent notifications with an approach “more privacy-preserving” than similar systems used in other browsers  —  The Brave browser will soon allows users to block annoying and potentially privacy-harming cookie consent banners on all websites they visit.

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Lookout: almost 50% of Android phones used by US state and local government staff run outdated versions of the OS, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities  —  According to a new report, almost half of Android-based mobile phones used by U.S. state and local government employees …

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
The US DOJ seizes internet domains for Z-Library, a repository that went viral on TikTok for offering 11M+ books, including pirated textbooks, and 84M articles  —  Internet domains for the popular Z-Library online eBook repository were seized early this morning by the U.S. Department of Justice, preventing easy access to the service.