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International police have shut down what they called "one of the world's largest" online markets dealing in millions of stolen identities and account details, Europol said on Wednesday.

The agency also accused ChatGPT, which is financially supported by Microsoft, of failing to check the age of its users. The app is supposed to be reserved to people aged 13 and above. The agency said in a note it had provisionally restricted chatbot's use of Italian users' personal data. OpenAI did not immediately respond to an emailed request for ...

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in training of systems more powerful than GPT-4, they said in an open letter, citing potential risks to society and humanity.

"The potential exploitation of these types of AI systems by criminals provides a grim outlook," The Hague-based Europol said.

Police have dismantled a huge drugs "super-cartel" that controlled a third of Europe's cocaine trade, arresting 49 people in various countries including six top suspects in Dubai, Europol said Monday.

The CBI has arrested two men who ran an illegal call centre in west Delhi from where they allegedly cheated and extorted money from foreign nationals by posing as Interpol and Europol officers, officials said today.

Ruja Ignatova, also known as the “missing Cryptoqueen”, has been placed on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list. The Bulgarian woman with German citizenship is wanted for her alleged role in running a cryptocurrency scam known as OneCoin.

The Emotet botnet has begun targeting Google Chrome users to steal credit card information stored in the world’s most widely used web browser. The malware steals credit card details of unsuspecting users, then exfiltrates the data to a different command-and-control server, according to researchers. The Emotet botnet was shut down in 2021, but has...

Ruja Ignatova, the founder of Ponzi scheme OneCoin, has been added to Europe’s list of most wanted fugitives as of Wednesday. Ignatova is known for being the founding head of OneCoin, one of the biggest scams in the history of crypto, and the basis of the BBC podcast series, titled The Missing Cryptoqueen.

Dutch and German police have busted a criminal gang who made video tutorials on how to bomb cash machines, only to blow themselves up in the process, officials said Thursday.

Police arrested more than 800 people worldwide in a huge global sting involving encrypted phones that were secretly planted by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday.

De Bolle, a former head of the Belgian police, said the rise in paedophile activities was reported by national law enforcement authorities from the 27 EU states who saw higher access to illegal websites and shut more online platforms for the exchange of child sex material.

Europe's policing agency Friday rolled out a new campaign to catch the continent's most wanted female criminals, saying their crimes were just as serious as those committed by men.

A "high profile" Ukrainian man who faked his own death was arrested in France, Europol said in a statement on Tuesday.

From Thursday, Europol is offering up their own "team" of 25 most wanted criminals in an online game not unlike collecting football cards.

International police have shut down what they called "one of the world's largest" online markets dealing in millions of stolen identities and account details, Europol said on Wednesday.

The agency also accused ChatGPT, which is financially supported by Microsoft, of failing to check the age of its users. The app is supposed to be reserved to people aged 13 and above. The agency said in a note it had provisionally restricted chatbot's use of Italian users' personal data. OpenAI did not immediately respond to an emailed request for ...

Elon Musk and a group of artificial intelligence experts and industry executives are calling for a six-month pause in training of systems more powerful than GPT-4, they said in an open letter, citing potential risks to society and humanity.

"The potential exploitation of these types of AI systems by criminals provides a grim outlook," The Hague-based Europol said.

Police have dismantled a huge drugs "super-cartel" that controlled a third of Europe's cocaine trade, arresting 49 people in various countries including six top suspects in Dubai, Europol said Monday.

The CBI has arrested two men who ran an illegal call centre in west Delhi from where they allegedly cheated and extorted money from foreign nationals by posing as Interpol and Europol officers, officials said today.

Ruja Ignatova, also known as the “missing Cryptoqueen”, has been placed on the FBI’s top ten most wanted list. The Bulgarian woman with German citizenship is wanted for her alleged role in running a cryptocurrency scam known as OneCoin.

The Emotet botnet has begun targeting Google Chrome users to steal credit card information stored in the world’s most widely used web browser. The malware steals credit card details of unsuspecting users, then exfiltrates the data to a different command-and-control server, according to researchers. The Emotet botnet was shut down in 2021, but has...

Ruja Ignatova, the founder of Ponzi scheme OneCoin, has been added to Europe’s list of most wanted fugitives as of Wednesday. Ignatova is known for being the founding head of OneCoin, one of the biggest scams in the history of crypto, and the basis of the BBC podcast series, titled The Missing Cryptoqueen.

Dutch and German police have busted a criminal gang who made video tutorials on how to bomb cash machines, only to blow themselves up in the process, officials said Thursday.

Police arrested more than 800 people worldwide in a huge global sting involving encrypted phones that were secretly planted by the FBI, law enforcement agencies said Tuesday.

De Bolle, a former head of the Belgian police, said the rise in paedophile activities was reported by national law enforcement authorities from the 27 EU states who saw higher access to illegal websites and shut more online platforms for the exchange of child sex material.

Europe's policing agency Friday rolled out a new campaign to catch the continent's most wanted female criminals, saying their crimes were just as serious as those committed by men.

A "high profile" Ukrainian man who faked his own death was arrested in France, Europol said in a statement on Tuesday.

From Thursday, Europol is offering up their own "team" of 25 most wanted criminals in an online game not unlike collecting football cards.