Europol and eight other agencies launched the bust aimed at a network that targeted people trying to regain access to lost or stolen phones.

The man’s co-defendant was previously sentenced to 10 years after being convicted in a jury trial.

The tech giant believes it is another instance of Iranian hackers attempting to meddle in U.S. politics and the upcoming presidential election.

APT42 targeted the Biden and Trump presidential campaigns from May to June, Google researchers found.

The malicious activity comes as CrowdStrike customers continue to recover from the July 18 outage.

Hackers compromised roughly 8,000 of those accounts with tools that a cybercrime group known as W3LL sold through its underground marketplace.

The campaign is the latest case of business email compromise, which costs victims billions of dollars annually.

The agency reports that scam text complaints rose 500% between 2015 to 2022, reflecting the increase in robotexts Americans receive annually.

The collapse of the U.S. tech industry's bank of choice has prompted a massive amount of fraud attempting to capitalize on its downfall.

The Russian hacking group Trident Ursa is mostly known for phishing campaigns targeting organizations in NATO states.