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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
Chainalysis Breach Exposes All Users’ Credentials, Forces Shutdown of Key Services. Chainalysis said it has implemented additional proactive monitoring systems to detect unusual activity, adding it took the Know Your Transaction (KYT) user interface and API offline, alongside other address screening products and the login page. Hacker News
Treasury Targets Global Scam Networks and the Corporate Infrastructure That Enables Them U.S. Treasury
Opium Is Back in Afghanistan Diplomat
Peru airport thwarts plot to smuggle 3,000 tarantulas in dirty socks AFP
Mexican judge arrested, accused by U.S. of taking bribes to free accused drug trafficker linked to Olympian Ryan Wedding CBS News
Ex-FBI agent set to plead guilty to stealing $1 million in crypto Washington Post
Three Foreign Nationals Arrested And Charged With Scheme To Use Super Intelligence To Defraud Companies Of $129 Million DOJ
Ecuadorian Politicians, Business Executives, And Narcotraffickers Arrested For Narcotics Importation And Weapons Offenses DOJ
Paraguayan President Santiago Peña steps down after bank collapse Associated Press
US sanctions Chinese firms over alleged military supplies to Cuba South China Morning Post
World Bank Says Corruption Cost Kenya $900 Million on Railway Bloomberg
Iraq Jails Ex-Oil Boss for Eight Years Over $119M Kickback Scheme OCCRP
Webull Faces $4.2 Million Penalty for Gaps in Identity Verification Bloomberg
Inside the IRGC-linked corporate network controlling Iran’s internet Iran International
Combating End-to-End Illicit Financial Flows Linked to Scam Compounds: Applying the FATF Toolkit to the Fraud Epidemic FATF
The Confessions of an AI Fraud Kingpin 404 Media
Beef giant JBS and its financial backers face coordinated transnational legal actions alleging money laundering GLAN
Democrats gearing up to probe JPMorgan’s relationship with Epstein Reuters
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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
Disrupting Iran’s Pursuit of Man-Portable Air-Defense Systems U.S. State Department
Switzerland follows EU in lifting sanctions on billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman, but adds restrictions on 254 entities Insider
U.S. allows Hungary’s MOL to prepare for purchase of Russian stake in Serbian oil company NIS Insider
UK Funds AI Program With Qatar Charity, Previously Linked to Alleged Hamas Financing Jewish Onliner
CAIR-Florida suspends operations after court makes terror tag stick Washington Times
ISIS Activity After the U.S. Withdrawal from Iraq and Syria Soufan Center
Putin seizes Russian operations of Japanese tobacco giant JTI Euronews
Ex-Politburo member Ma Xingrui’s corruption charges extend to end of last century South China Morning Post
Chinese AI lab Moonshot turned to Europe for Nvidia Blackwell access amid U.S. China curbs CNBC
Poland detains six over suspected illegal shipments of weapons components to Russia Insider
Owners of seized Russian oil tanker claim U.S. improperly sold ship for scrap metal NBC News
Trump’s diesel deal with Putin in shambles after Russian tankers turn away from US due to sanctions Independent
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Ukraine fires two senior security officials amid corruption probe into scam call centers Record
L.A. businesswoman indicted in alleged $18-million COVID fraud scheme Los Angeles Times
‘Squad’ Alum Cori Bush Registers as Paid Foreign Agent, Will Lead Anti-Israel Propaganda Tours of West Bank for Shadowy NGO Free Beacon
More Than $11 Million In Nvidia Hardware Stolen From Truck That Left Oakland SFist
Arkansas Sues Kalshi, Joining a Growing List of States Targeting Prediction Markets Decrypt
Scammers are waiting to swindle new internet users. How do we protect them? BBC
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French bank Credit Mutuel Arkea says €100 million missing after cyberattack Reuters
India flags Chinese-linked AI tools in hacking campaign against financial firms Reuters
DigiCert data breach exposes customer information, identity documents BleepingComputer
Harden cooling systems now, feds warn critical infrastructure operators amid attacks Record
Binance Subpoenas Target Kevin O’Leary, Michael Lewis in FTX Row Bloomberg
Hacking on Autopilot: Inside ARTEX Cybercrime Campaigns Check Point Research
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Rewards up to combined $50M for three Tren de Aragua leaders following Homeland Security Task Force investigation DOJ
Lured into an online scam network, an African man spent almost a year in Cambodia trying to go home Associated Press
The Gulf Cartel’s Mega Narco-Blockade and Extortion Racket CrashOut
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Donald Trump Jr. Discussed Deals With Russian Businessman Close to Putin’s Personal Security Chief. Trump Jr. and Umar Kremlev have been widely reported as friends, with the controversial businessman even paying for Trump Jr.’s wedding. OCCRP
From Ponzi to Fonzi: the $20bn fraud scandal rocking Turkey Financial Times
Ontario court certifies class-action suit against TD Bank regarding money laundering Canadian Press
U.S. Sentences Venezuelan National to 12 Years for Laundering Over $1 Billion OCCRP
U.S. Sanctions Fraudulent Ship Registries and Aviation Support for Iranian Regime U.S. State Department
North Korea laundering Binance billions with Chinese help — to spend on new missiles New York Post
Ukraine’s corruption police tie senior security officials to major criminal ring Reuters
Crypto Giants Scrap Crime-Fighting Alliance as Hackers Circle Bloomberg
Hackers Hit Banks of the Cash and Blood Variety in France Gizmodo
US Bank Regulator Issues First AI Framework as Banks Battle Rogue Agents Decrypt
Fallen Austrian property tycoon Benko pleads not guilty at third fraud trial Reuters
Chinese court hears US$53.5 billion Covid defamation case against US state of Missouri South China Morning Post
LeT Reshuffle: Hafiz Saeed’s Son Takes Active Command, US-Sanctioned Operatives Get Key Regional Roles News18
Trial of accused USS Cole attack mastermind opens at Guantanamo Al-Monitor
California Recovers Over $4.8 Million for Scam Victims of Major Crypto ATM Company CoinFlip California DFPI
APT29-Linked Hackers Hijack Web Analytics Script to Deliver iOS and Android Exploits Hacker News
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Chinese genetic firm Novogene sues US over military designation Reuters
U.S. Will Drop Smuggling Charges Against Russian-Born Harvard Medical School Scientist Reuters
Hungary to give up Russian gas by fall 2027 after years of Orbán government’s reliance on Moscow Insider
Former boss of Beijing-backed institute lands top US university job Daily Mail
China-Aligned Hackers Hijack Sogou Input Method DNS Requests to Deploy DarkVigil Backdoor Hacker News
How China Is Building Influence in Central Asia, One Laboratory at a Time Diplomat
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Sherritt Furloughs 47% of Canada Workforce Amid Cuba Sanctions Bloomberg
Rwanda’s army team removed from BAL after US sanctions BBC
Belfast: Explosive devices linked to ‘extreme right-wing terrorism’ BBC
UK court weighs ban on pro-Palestinian group amid protests AFP
Made in Lebanon: Social Media Account Tied to Pro-Hezbollah Media Backs French Protests FDD
Extremists’ Targeting and Recruitment of Minors in Online Gaming Spaces: Insights From Seventeen Expert Interviews GNET
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Federal grand jury indicts fourteen defendants in $370 million nationwide bank account takeover conspiracy DOJ
Express Service: California AG Mysteriously Reinstates Deadbeat Charity Controlled by Code Pink Activist Medea Benjamin, Despite Missing $54 Million Free Beacon
Two Years Ago, Raytheon Defrauded the US Military. Why Did It Just Get a $400 Million No-Bid Contract? National Interest
Second Circuit Won’t Pause New York, Connecticut Actions Against Kalshi and Coinbase Unchained
Top scams hitting Gen Z more than other generations Fox News
Investor seizes control of Ethan Allen after alleging director had used biopharma company as ‘personal piggy bank’ New York Post
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US charges two Canadians accused of hacking US universities BleepingComputer
Russian Police Arrest 3 Suspected VasyGrek Hackers, Dismantle Criminal Infrastructure Hacker News
Hackers stole DreamHost customer files and inboxes during months-long attack TechCrunch
CISA Confirms Hackers Exploiting WordPress Core Flaw During Software Upgrades Hacker News
BitMart hit by $391K hack amid security staff exodus Protos
Who Polices the Blockchain? The Binance Heist and the New Gatekeepers RUSI
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Moment six Brits are arrested after record £65million cocaine stash is found in Brazilian warehouse Daily Mail
Mugabe’s son arrested over ‘assault’ during luxury car smuggling probe BBC
One of the largest cigarette smuggling operations of all time thwarted Jerusalem Post
Spanish police arrest three over suspected war weapons trafficking Euronews
New and Emerging Threats from Mexican Cartels Across the Air, Cyber and Territorial Domains Small Wars Journal
An Idaho law targeted fentanyl dealers. Prosecutors are using it to charge users, too Washington Post
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
