Dutch police dismantle global crypto investment scam, arrest alleged mastermind
2026-07-15T14:52:24Z•99c554f0135d2fc01fd497a6e861b09284569e6161d3fe4e6304cc210b0ddca0
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What happened
Multiple security and law-enforcement developments: Dutch police dismantled a large, long-running global crypto investment scam operating through ~24 call centers and >700 employees; the LAPD has paused/reshaped its relationship with ALPR vendor Flock Safety amid privacy and policy concerns; Microsoft published a record Patch Tuesday disclosing 622 vulnerabilities, significantly increasing the immediate patching burden; U.S. authorities unsealed an indictment against alleged operators of Russian bulletproof hosting firms Media Land and ML Cloud for supporting cybercriminals; Finland issued a “
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