News tagged NCA

The NCA seized 2.9 tonnes of cocaine worth £232 million at London Gateway Port after it was hidden in a shipment of bananas.

Justin Swaddle was jailed for two years after an NCA investigation identified 117 teenage victims linked to his online abuse.

Justin Swaddle, of Leeds in northern England, targeted 117 female victims aged 13 to 17, according to the National Crime Agency.

A member of "The Com," a loose-knit online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers, has been sentenced to two years in prison for blackmail and sextortion offenses against nearly 120 victims worldwide.

A Belarusian national active in the cybercriminal world for decades was sentenced to 16 years in U.S. prison for running the Ransom Cartel ransomware operation.

Personal data linked to more than 100,000 UK police and justice users was leaked after a breach of the Police National Legal Database.

A cyberattack on the U.K.'s Police National Legal Database (PNLD) has compromised contact data of more than 100,000 police officers and other criminal justice professionals.

Merseyside crime team jailed offenders for 850 years, seized £70M in drugs and disrupted 31 organised crime groups since 2021.

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers were jailed after the 2024 TfL cyberattack caused £29 million in losses.

Two leading members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective were sentenced to five years and six months in prison each for hacking Transport for London (TfL) in 2024.

Two leading members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective have been sentenced to more than five years in prison for carrying out the 2024 cyberattack against Transport for London (TfL).

UK authorities charged five people following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into Russian Coms, a major caller ID spoofing platform used by criminals to make over 1.8 million scam calls.

The allies blamed Center 16, the FSB’s signals intelligence arm, for acts of attempted cyber sabotage targeting Poland’s energy sector and water treatment facilities, alongside “a wide range of malicious cyber activities with growing…

Christopher Sanders was jailed after an NCA investigation found he paid for child abuse livestreams and encouraged offenders overseas.

Two Albanian nationals were sentenced after the NCA found 9kg of cannabis and more than £51,000 in cash at a Birmingham home.

Two men pleaded guilty in the United Kingdom this week to criminal charges stemming from an August 2024 cyberattack that crippled Transport for London, the entity responsible for the public transport network in the Greater London area. The…