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Enforcement Drift: Chinese Money Laundering Networks Serving Mexico-Based Cartels. Beyond FinCEN Advisory FIN-2025-A003: Where Enforcement Has Moved and Where It Is Headed. Illicit Edge
Guns from U.S. smuggled into North Korea by Hong Kong network. The network used an elaborate scheme to transport firearms that had been shipped from the U.S. to Hong Kong, concealing them among the household belongings of North Korean diplomats returning home. Straits Times
Western Pharma Giants Paid Millions to Russian Distributors Linked to Fraud Moscow Times
Fraud Trial Underway in New York for Cleveland Guardians Pitchers, Including Star Reliever Associated Press
Iranian ‘ghost fleet’ filmed evading US blockade en route to China Fox News
Myanmar Remains on FATF Blacklist Due to Money Laundering Concerns Diplomat
Featured Report: How North Korea is laundering the $6.4 billion stolen from Binance Elliptic
U.S. Pushes to Restore Russian Gas Sales to Europe Via Ukraine Wall Street Journal
Trump Risks Violating U.S. Law by Giving Russia Even More Sanctions Relief FDD
Bibi and the Blockchain: When a Prime Minister Plans for Sanctions Evasion RUSI
Fintech platform Sageworks taken offline after suspected cyberattack BleepingComputer
US to suspend South Africa and Rwanda from duty-free trade access Reuters
CISA Retreats From Election Security Ahead of Midterms New York Times
Pentagon probes sabotage of food supply at 14 US military bases Daily Mail
Brazil’s Largest Exchange Mercado Bitcoin Halts Withdrawals After $40 Million Hack Decrypt
Hundreds of Mundane AI Apps Are Hiding Sexually Abusive Deepfake Features Wired
The Questions Adam Hamawy Won’t Answer Atlantic
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Time to Stir the AML Pot FinCrime Unfiltered
Human Intelligence in Conflict Zones Coercive Capital
WISE and Monzo Penalties, and FinCEN Special Measures FinCrime Unfiltered
Tehran’s Tightrope: The Cost of Confrontation Coercive Capital
Canada’s first prosecution of an ISIS woman hinges on texts to mom Global News
Iran engages US in ‘intensive’ negotiations to avert fresh war outbreak AFP
Uganda begins withdrawing troops from Somalia after two-decade effort to battle militants DW
Bomb attack in western Colombia kills four, including baby BBC
The Centocelle School Attack and the Consolidation of Nihilistic Violent Extremism in Italy GNET
Afghan United Front leads October surge in claimed anti-Taliban attacks Long War Journal
Major automakers urge US Congress to pass permanent ban on Chinese vehicles Reuters
Hackers say they stole 23 terabytes of data from Russia’s state statistics agency, including data on war casualties Insider
Russian and Ukrainian hackers hijack emergency apps to spread fake nuclear attack warnings Record
Are the dirty tricks of Russia’s FSB getting even dirtier? Spectator
How China Might Target US Midterms CEPA
The U.S. Once Dominated the World’s Oceans. China’s Xi is Changing That. Wall Street Journal
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High Museum of Art’s Former COO Sentenced to Federal Prison for Embezzlement DOJ
The Backlash to Corruption Is Going Global Atlantic
Judge cites ‘weaponization’ in Biden laptop-related case and tosses charges Associated Press
Abdul El-Sayed’s Bagmen: Inside the Shadowy Network of Anti-Israel Donors, PACs, and Super PACs Funding His ‘Grassroots’ Campaign Free Beacon
Ex-Chicago FBI boss sues Trump admin saying he was wrongly blamed for botched ‘Broadview 6’ case Chicago Sun-Times
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Binance completes latest proof of reserves as it works to restore assets, withdrawals after record hack The Block
Masks Off: Crypto Industry Responds to Binance Hack by Acting Like Banks Gizmodo
BTCPay Server warns of hot wallet thefts targeting outdated instances BleepingComputer
Ivanti patches two more Connect Secure zero-days chained in attacks BleepingComputer
DarkBlinders Compromises Israeli Target and Iraqi Kurdish Government Cloud Environment The Hacker News
Shop freezers in six European countries hit by suspected cyber-attack BBC
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Record reward offered for capture of fugitive cocaine kingpin dubbed “Chubby Jos” CBS News
FBI operation in Indian Country disrupts drug trafficking, locates child victims Star Tribune
Indonesia Asks Russia to Stop Recruiting Its Citizens for Ukraine War OCCRP
3D-printed ghost guns may now have a way to be traced to their source Tom’s Hardware
Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail BBC
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FBI says North Korea was behind $6.3 billion Binance heist, the biggest crypto hack in history. The FBI asked crypto exchanges, blockchain analytics companies and others to block transactions linked to various addresses to make sure the money is not laundered to cover up its origins. Associated Press
China places former Sinopec, CNOOC boss Fu Chengyu, 75, under corruption probe South China Morning Post
Treasury flags $8B in suspicious foreign-directed transfers through US money services firms Fox News
FBI agents dodge bullets in massive San Diego Mafia takedown New York Post
Alleged Engineer of CJNG Cartel’s Cross-Border Tunnel Indicted for Providing Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organization DOJ
Monaco Taken Off Global Dirty-Money List Along With Bulgaria, Ivory Coast, Congo Bloomberg
British firms duped into funding North Korea’s nuclear arsenal Telegraph
Hong Kong fire exposes entrenched triad networks in building renovation industry Reuters
NYC ‘fraud factory’ stole $7M in federal benefits and bought fancy cars, payments to Yemen New York Post
Chainalysis Confirms Intrusion Into Internal Tools and Exposure of Customer Identity Data The Hacker News
Polymarket Is Investigating Suspicious Bets on Israeli Election New York Times
Amazon mining boss wanted by Brazil for sheltering Jair Bolsonaro’s spy chief has businesses, properties in Florida ICIJ
Alleged Turkish Crime Boss Assassinated Inside Spanish Hospital Room OCCRP
Lebanese military court judge charges 13 over seized Hezbollah explosives truck Times of Israel
Russia’s FSB Says Minor Detained Over Moscow Park Attack Threat After U.S. Tip-Off Reuters
Mexico City Gangs Seize Thousands of Homes via Violence, Extortion Bloomberg
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Two Men Sentenced for Acting as Agents of the People’s Republic of China DOJ
US plans to ban Chinese telecom firms from direct access to US phone numbers Reuters
Lithuanian police connect Starlink arson attacks in three EU countries to the same group Insider
China Communist Party Urges Tougher Action on Crypto Corruption Bloomberg
Chinese hackers used DeepSeek and other AI tools in sweeping global cyberattacks NBC News
Russian businessman blames sanctions in £30mn divorce battle Financial Times
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California Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham DOJ
U.S. blockade, sanctions crippling Iran’s economy Axios
Trump pressures Lithuania to crack EU potash sanctions on Belarus Politico
Florida teenager arrested in an Islamic State-linked bomb plot Long War Journal
Iran brands British air force and navy ‘terrorists,’ declares MI6 hostile i24
Former U.S. Government Contractor Arrested for Allegedly Leaking National Defense Information and Stealing Night Vision Goggles DOJ
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Former BizJet Sales Manager Pleads Guilty to Foreign Bribery DOJ
Indian National Pleads Guilty to $227M Medicare Fraud DOJ
Alina Habba’s Husband Ignited Drama in Trump’s Circle. Now He’s Under Scrutiny. New York Times
Ex-South Lake Tahoe mayor pleads guilty to wire fraud in church embezzlement case Los Angeles Times
Fake film deals and emails from top agents: who is behind the explosion in literary scams? Guardian
Fraudfare: Weaponized Fraud Under International Law Lawfare
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Syrian Hacker Behind Fake Tweet That Triggered $136 Billion Market Drop Gets 42 Months in Prison The Hacker News
Notorious hacker says stolen crypto is like ‘holding a hot potato’ CNN
Binance Turns Up in India’s $500 Million-Plus Crypto Probe as a Route for Foreign Payouts Unchained
Trezor warns of suspected crypto-theft implant in hardware wallet BleepingComputer
How hackers broke into four of Canada’s top law firms, stole client files and caused chaos Globe and Mail
A Supply Chain Attack Put Malicious Anthropic Claude Extensions on Thousands of Devices Wired
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Chinese national sentenced to 12 years in prison for narcotics trafficking, money laundering, and material support to terrorism DOJ
Lebanon seizes largest drug shipment in Beirut airport history L’Orient Today
17 Disney and Universal employees among 281 arrested in Florida sex trafficking sting CBS News
‘Architect’ of prostitution ring jailed after trafficking Romanian women into UK BBC
‘If you don’t stop, they’ll kill all of us’: Somali pirates are back with a vengeance CNN
Power, profit, crime: Irregular migration out of east Libya DW
Trade-Related Illicit Financial Flows in Africa, 2013-2022 Global Financial Integrity
Do Export Controls Erode the United States’ Lead—Or Protect It? CSIS
Three Years of War in Ukraine: Are Sanctions Against Russia Making a Difference? CFR
Why does the U.S. use secondary sanctions, and do they work? DW
Teaching the Business and Art of Sanctions Circumvention RUSI
Understanding the Libra Case: Identifying Red Flags in The Crypto Assets Industry GFI
The next generation: Russia’s future rulers Atlantic Council
How overly aggressive bans on AI chip exports to China can backfire Brookings
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