U.S. federal prosecutors

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged three Russian nationals with providing bulletproof hosting services to ransomware gangs, resulting in over $62 million in global damages.

A Spanish national, Alvaro Lopez Tardon, is appealing a 150-year prison sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering, arguing U.S. sentencing guidelines should not apply to crimes committed in Spain. Prosecutors allege he ran a seven-year cocaine smuggling operation from Miami to Spain, using proceeds to fund luxury purchases in the U.S.

A Russian national, Denis Nikolayevich Obrezko, has been charged by U.S. federal prosecutors for conspiracy to commit unauthorized computer access linked to the Void Blizzard cyber-espionage campaign. The group, also tracked as Laundry Bear, is accused of using stolen session tokens and proxy services to infiltrate systems of businesses, educational institutions, and government agencies in multiple countries.

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles allege that MS-13 members committed ritualistic machete murders under the gang's 'Salvadoran rules,' a brutal code requiring aspiring members to kill to prove loyalty. The case involves a local leadership adopting this conduct to enforce gang hierarchy.