Officials said they dismantled nine organized crime groups and removed more than 27,000 URLs hosting live sports and other copyrighted media during a seven-month operation.

The botnet, which compromised routers and IoT devices in 163 countries, claimed about 369,000 victims and $5.8 million from its cybercriminal customers, officials said.

Officials took down three U.S.-registered domains that distributed copyrighted content and received tens of millions of visits a year.

Nickel, aka APT15, Ke3chang and Vixen Panda, was snooping on government agencies and others, the company said.

The NetWalker attackers have reportedly seen profits surge during the COVID-19 crisis.

The cybercriminals' operation employed the malware to target 41,000 computers between 2015 and 2016.

The arrest is related to a massive data breach at the National Revenue Agency. The 20-year-old man had been conducting cybersecurity training for the GDOC, a Bulgarian…

Bulgaria's prime minister convened an emergency meeting on the matter, and the country has sought assistance from the European Union’s cybersecurity agency.

The crackdown included an indictment of 10 alleged members of the crime ring, and prosecution of defendants in Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine.

The scheme involved an elaborate amount of social-engineering with a dose of phishing.