Ransomware

Sanxenxo City Council in Pontevedra is facing a ransomware standoff after attackers disrupted municipal systems and demanded payment in Bitcoin, officials say. Services including the council website and administrative functions remain affected as negotiations continue.

U.S. prosecutors say the virtual currency platform E-Note has moved more than $70 million tied to cybercrime since 2017, and the FBI has seized the exchange in a criminal probe.

Germany and Switzerland, with Europol coordination, dismantled Cryptomixer, a nine-year-old crypto mixing service accused of laundering roughly $1.4 billion for ransomware groups and darknet markets. The takedown removes a long-standing money-laundering hub from the ecosystem.