{"id":11020,"date":"2026-02-28T10:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/police-crackdown-on-the-com-cybercrime-gang-leads-to-30-arrests\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T10:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T10:03:52","slug":"police-crackdown-on-the-com-cybercrime-gang-leads-to-30-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/28\/police-crackdown-on-the-com-cybercrime-gang-leads-to-30-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"Europol-led crackdown on The Com hackers leads to 30 arrests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Europol-led crackdown on The Com hackers leads to 30 arrests<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A yearlong Europol-coordinated operation dubbed &#8220;Project Compass&#8221; has led to 30 arrests and 179 suspects being tied to &#8220;The Com,&#8221; an online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Sergiu Gatlan<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/police-crackdown-on-the-com-cybercrime-gang-leads-to-30-arrests\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europol-led crackdown on The Com hackers leads to 30 arrests A yearlong Europol-coordinated operation dubbed &#8220;Project Compass&#8221; has led to 30 arrests and 179 suspects being tied to &#8220;The Com,&#8221; an online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers. [&#8230;] Sergiu Gatlan Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,133],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-11020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-security","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}