The United States Department of Justice announced the arrest of three individuals and the seizure of the domain of Rydox, a dark web marketplace involved in trading personal information of thousands. In a separate coordinated effort, Europol, in collaboration with 15 countries, successfully dismantled 27 prominent distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) platforms, effectively taking them offline. Additionally, reports emerged regarding a new backdoor technique known as Yokai, which targets Thai officials by disguising malware as legitimate documents through DLL side-loading methods. Furthermore, Germany has disrupted BADBOX malware affecting approximately 30,000 devices using a sinkhole action, highlighting ongoing global cybersecurity challenges.