FIN-CRIME

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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27
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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21
Jul
Digital Growth, Deepening Exposure: Nigeria's Race to Regulate a Rising Cybercrime Economy- 263

Digital Growth, Deepening Exposure: Nigeria's Race to Regulate a Rising Cybercrime Economy- 263

July 18, 2o26 Nigeria's fraud statistics tell an uncomfortable story about the relationship between reported incident volume and
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21
Jul
Following the Money: Inside the Takedown of a €140 Million Iberian Fraud Network- 262

Following the Money: Inside the Takedown of a €140 Million Iberian Fraud Network- 262

July 17, 2026 Spain's national police disrupted, on July 13, a criminal network whose scale illustrates a pattern
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19
Jul
Operation Ramz shows where Southeast Asia's scam compounds go when they get shut down- 241

Operation Ramz shows where Southeast Asia's scam compounds go when they get shut down- 241

June 28, 2026 INTERPOL's Operation Ramz, the largest coordinated cybercrime operation the organization has ever run in the
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