Interpol: Can We Drop the Term ‘Pig Butchering’?
The agency asks the cybersecurity community to adopt "romance baiting" in place of dehumanizing language.
China’s ‘Evasive Panda’ APT Debuts High-End Cloud Hijacking
A professional-grade tool set, appropriately dubbed "CloudScout," is infiltrating cloud apps like Microsoft Outlook and Google Drive, targeting sensitive info…
Southeast Asian Cybercrime Profits Fuel Shadow Economy
With cybercriminal gangs raking in at least $18 billion regionally — and much more globally — law enforcement and policymakers…
Cambodian Tycoon Sanctioned for Forced Cyber Labor, Trafficking
The sanctions are unlikely to impact the growing network of criminals who lure victims into working for cybercrime sweat shops…
Ransomware Gangs Pummel Southeast Asia
Successful ransomware attacks against organizations in Asia continue at peak levels in 2024 following a wave of high-profile data breaches…
Forced-Labor Camps Fuel Billions of Dollars in Cyber Scams
Greater collaboration between financial and law enforcement officials is needed to dismantle cybercrime scam centers in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar,…
Meta Disrupts 8 Spyware Firms, 3 Fake News Networks
While furiously trying to put out one fire — fake news — the social media giant is dealing with another…
Myanmar Hands Over Mob Bosses in Cyber-Fraud Bust
Heads of top crime syndicates extradited to China are implicated in pig-butchering "fraud dens," but four individuals on China's most-wanted…
Cybercrime Orgs Increasingly Use Human Trafficking to Staff Scam Mills
Interpol breaks up Southeast Asian cybercrime rings, rescuing 149 victims of human trafficking, but the agency warns the human cost…
Jake Sullivan’s foreign policy blunders resurface after hyping up Middle East peace days before Hamas attacks
Biden National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is under fire from conservatives in what has become the latest in a long…