T-Fraud

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
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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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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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
From Signatures to Behavior: How Real-Time AI Attacks Disrupted Global Cyber Defense- 224

From Signatures to Behavior: How Real-Time AI Attacks Disrupted Global Cyber Defense- 224

May 4, 2026 A retail chain in Hungary lost €15.5 million because an AI-polished email looked exactly like
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05
Jul
North Korea's Two-Tier Crypto War: Precision Heists and Industrial Harvesting- 209

North Korea's Two-Tier Crypto War: Precision Heists and Industrial Harvesting- 209

June 18, 2026 North Korea does not hack cryptocurrency platforms for profit in the way criminal groups do — opportunistically, in
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05
Jul
The Worm in the Toolchain: How TeamPCP Built a Credential Extraction Economy Inside Open Source- 201

The Worm in the Toolchain: How TeamPCP Built a Credential Extraction Economy Inside Open Source- 201

June 23, 2026 The most consequential credential theft does not happen when a user clicks a phishing link. It happens
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