Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners for power theft, which cost a state energy company ~$1.1B over five years
Cracking down on illegal Bitcoin mining gangs has become a cat-and-mouse game in Malaysia. — In Malaysia's illegal crypto mining hotspots, the hunt begins in the sky.
Sources: UK companies tell the UK that a planned ban on paying ransoms to ransomware gangs is unlikely to stop attacks and could result in services collapsing
Kieran Smith / Financial Times : LinkedIn: Greg Palmer . Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social LinkedIn: Greg Palmer : Georgina Kon and I spoke with Kieran Smith from the Financial Times about the...
US DHS: Chinese criminals made $1B+ in the past three years via scam texts; Proofpoint: Americans reported a record 330K toll-scam texts in one day in September
Messages seeking payment for unpaid tolls or postage fees prompt victims to hand over credit-card information, which gangs use to buy gift cards and luxury goods
A look at life in online scam compounds run by Chinese gangs on the Myanmar-Thai border, with purported Thai immigration officials luring trafficking victims
Thailand has become a key transit hub for trafficking victims … Bluesky: Adolfo Arranz / @adolfux : Over 185,000 brush strokes went into creating this visual story in “sequential art” format about gan...
The UK plans to ban public sector and key infrastructure organizations from paying ransoms to ransomware gangs and require others to notify the UK if they pay
targets ‘public sector bodies and operators of critical national infrastructure’ Nidhi Singal / CSO : Interlock ransomware threat expands across the US and Europe, hits healthcare and smart cities Chr...
A deep dive into how Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, Tinder, and Airbnb are being used to facilitate cross-border underage sex trafficking in Colombia
Bloomberg : Bluesky: @natalielung.com . LinkedIn: Antonia Mufarech Bluesky: Natalie Lung / @natalielung.com : New investigation: We have been digging into how US apps like FB, Tinder & Airbnb are use...
Brazilian nonprofit Legal Games Institute estimates that betting apps draw $23B+ in wagers annually, nearly 10 times the Mafia-run animal lottery in the country
Digital gambling could spell the end for a lottery run by criminal gangs that has been a fixture of Brazilian life for decades. Bluesky: @mrkickbacknchill Bluesky: @mrkickbacknchill : This entire post...
The US DOJ indicts three Russian citizens for allegedly operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixing services used by North Korea and ransomware gangs
If you own crypto, you are complicit. [embedded post] Mastodon: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb@infosec … : NEW: A year after seizing two cryptocurrency mixing services, the U.S. governmen...
The US DOJ indicts three Russian citizens for allegedly operating Bender.io and Sinbad.io crypto mixing services used by North Korea and ransomware gangs
If you own crypto, you are complicit. [embedded post] X: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : NEW: A year after seizing two cryptocurrency mixing services, the U.S. government is accusing thr...
Sources: Elon Musk and his right-wing allies discussed how to destabilize the UK Labour government and remove PM Keir Starmer, beyond Musk's aggressive X posts
Votes of millions of people don't count. — Fiction threatens to become reality as the equivalents of Dr. Strangelove and James Bond villain Elliot Carver plan world domination. — archive.ph/waCUV ...