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  • 4/18/2024
The AFP has been involved in a global cybercrime operation which has led to the arrests of 39 people, including five in Australia. The operation has also taken down a cybercrime platform called lab-host. It's alleged the platform was being used by criminals to steal the personal information of thousands of victims around the world including more than 94 thousand Australians.

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00:00 A Melbourne man and an Adelaide man, who police allege were Lab Host users, were arrested
00:07 during the warrants and charged with cybercrime-related offending.
00:11 Three Melbourne men were also arrested by Victoria Police and charged with drug-related
00:16 offences.
00:17 This is a significant disruption of the Lab Host infrastructure and the criminal's ability
00:21 to operate using this service.
00:23 This means that criminals who attempted to view the fraudulent websites were instead
00:27 met with a black screen displaying only law enforcement logos, sending the warning that
00:32 their criminal operations had been disrupted.
00:34 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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