193 cybercrims arrested, accused of plotting 'violence-as-a-service'

**Executive Summary:** Europol's Operational Taskforce GRIMM arrested nearly 200 suspects across multiple European countries over six months in a crackdown on "violence-as-a-service" networks that groom and recruit minors and others online to carry out murders, kidnappings, swatting and related real-world attacks; the operation identified recruiters, enablers, instigators and perpetrators tied to a loosely knit cybercriminal group known as "The Com" and IRL Com subgroups using encrypted messaging, SIM swapping and extortion techniques.