FIN-CRIME

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Sep
Fifteen Years in the Making: The Sentencing of Ransomwareas- a-Service's Original Architect- 309

Fifteen Years in the Making: The Sentencing of Ransomwareas- a-Service's Original Architect- 309

August 7, 2026 When a US federal judge in the Eastern District of Virginia sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years
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04
Sep
A Familiar Hand, A New Weapon: Storm-1175 Steps Out From Medusa's Shadow- 308

A Familiar Hand, A New Weapon: Storm-1175 Steps Out From Medusa's Shadow- 308

August 11, 2026 A ransomware group going quiet for four months usually means one of two things: law enforcement caught
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04
Sep
New Name, Same Playbook: How a Vishing Crew Climbed From Retail to Wall Street in 18 Months- 307

New Name, Same Playbook: How a Vishing Crew Climbed From Retail to Wall Street in 18 Months- 307

August 11, 2026 A criminal group that spent early 2025 attacking retail and hospitality chains does not, under ordinary circumstances,
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04
Sep
The Whole Pipeline: How Breached Data Becomes Cash, Leverage, and Sextortion Material- 306

The Whole Pipeline: How Breached Data Becomes Cash, Leverage, and Sextortion Material- 306

August 13, 2026 A data breach is usually reported as a single event — a company discloses an intrusion, a number
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04
Sep
The Authentic Trap: How H1 2026's Scam Campaigns Learned to Borrow Trust Instead of Faking It- 305

The Authentic Trap: How H1 2026's Scam Campaigns Learned to Borrow Trust Instead of Faking It- 305

August 15, 2026 Security vendors publish threat reports constantly, and most of them read the same way: a pie chart
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04
Sep
One Regime, Four Fronts: Inside North Korea's Parallel Cyber Enterprise- 302

One Regime, Four Fronts: Inside North Korea's Parallel Cyber Enterprise- 302

August 8, 2026 It would be easier to track North Korea's state-linked cyber activity if it all
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04
Sep
Seeing Is No Longer Believing: How Synthetic Media Weaponizes Trust in Two Unrelated Worlds- 301

Seeing Is No Longer Believing: How Synthetic Media Weaponizes Trust in Two Unrelated Worlds- 301

August 8, 2026 A flooded province in southern China and a subscription platform for adult content creators would seem to
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Aug
Ship First, Secure Later: AI Productivity Tools Are Outrunning Their Own Guardrails- 300

Ship First, Secure Later: AI Productivity Tools Are Outrunning Their Own Guardrails- 300

August 10, 2026 In the first half of 2026 alone, ESET's researchers catalogued nearly 900,000 distinct "
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24
Jul
Washington Recasts Pig-Butchering as a National-Security Problem: Inside the $43 Million Network That Fed China-Bound Laundering Pipelines- 271

Washington Recasts Pig-Butchering as a National-Security Problem: Inside the $43 Million Network That Fed China-Bound Laundering Pipelines- 271

July 21, 2026 The indictment of two Brooklyn and Queens residents accused of laundering more than $43 million in cyber-
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22
Jul
Bulletproof No Longer: The Unsealing of the Media Land Indictment- 270

Bulletproof No Longer: The Unsealing of the Media Land Indictment- 270

July 16, 2026 Three years after federal prosecutors first built their case, the US Justice Department this week unsealed an
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