An investigation by the Met’s Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) has led to the arrest of eight people behind a phishing attack that netted them a woman's £1 million lifesavings.

http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/police-arrest-1m-phishing-gang-apr13 

Today's security manager faces an increasingly complex risk scenario. In the last decade, threats have multiplied in both the physical and IT area.

http://www.ifsecglobal.com/author.asp?section_id=541&doc_id=559382&cid=ema_020413_1

The UK Government has unveiled a new Cyber Security Information Sharing Partnership (CISP), just as the global Internet is facing what some are calling the "biggest attack in history". 

http://www.ifsecglobal.com/author.asp?section_id=414&doc_id=559374&cid=ema_020413_1

Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) has reported that 44 members of a global credit card fraud network have been arrested.

http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/global-credit-card-fraudsters-arrested-apr13

Security researchers have discovered a botnet they have dubbed "Chameleon" which they calculate is costing display advertisers around $6m (£3.9m) per month by falsely viewing billions of pages and adverts on about 200 sites owned by a small group of publishers. 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/mar/19/botnet-costing-advertisers-6m-dollars-chameleon

Beware of a fraudulent email purporting to be from Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit designed to trick you into installing malware on your PC.

http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/malware-attack-poses-as-warning-from-microsoft-digital-crimes-unit-mar13

The City of London and other police forces are routinely letting cyber criminals get away with their crimes - preferring to concentrate on the victims and potential victims instead - due to uncooperative police forces in jurisdictions outside the European Union.

http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2252352/police-prevented-from-chasing-cyber-criminals-from-outside-europe

A man defrauded out of £5,350 buying a motorbike through eBay has criticised police and a new national fraud service claiming they failed to investigate properly. He said the new Action Fraud initiative, launched last month, was “nothing more than a data collection agency”. 

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10262070._Police_and_new_fraud_service_did_not_investigate___claims_crime_victim/

One of Britain’s most notorious cyber criminals hacked into a prison computer system from inside jail – after he was allowed to join an IT class.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287138/Public-schoolboy-hacker-masterminded-15m-fraud-jails-IT-class--hacks-prisons-system.html?ito=feeds-newsxml 

Microsoft said it was hacked by the same Cybercriminals who targeted Apple and Facebook recently. Last week Apple admitted their computers were compromised when employees visited a developer's websites infected with malware.

http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/microsoft-latest-victim-of-hacking-feb13