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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
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Inside the world’s scam capital, where enslaved workers are forced to defraud Americans online NBC News
3 U.S. men arrested on charges of plotting to support ISIS NBC News
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse The New Yorker
Putin’s Inner Circle Travels on Western-Made Private Jets Despite Sanctions Wall Street Journal
US plans to use Iranian assets to rebuild Gulf allies New York Post
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried officially files for a presidential pardon from Trump The Block
C.I.A. Officer Found With Gold Bars Said to Have Created Fake Spy Program New York Times
Chinese triads are being directed by Beijing to spy in the UK and could use brothels to blackmail MPs Daily Mail
The back-channel bid to go soft on Maduro Politico
Moroccan banks reach €175 million settlement in investigation into illegal activities Belga News
Georgia detains Russian citizen wanted by FBI on suspicion of violating sanctions by supplying aircraft parts to Russia The Insider
Pentagon says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD and Unitree support China’s military TechCrunch
Kinahan crime gang ‘lieutenant’ Sean McGovern jailed for 24 years The Journal
Senior executives at Islamic charity privately warned that £350,000 aid to Gaza ‘very likely to have helped fund Hamas and other terror groups’ Daily Mail
Christine Hunsicker, CaaStle CEO, Confessed to Fraud. The Board Let Her Stay in Charge. New York Times
Agentic AI opens the door to weaponizing financial systems Atlantic Council
Meta takes legal action against Israeli spyware firm NSO Group Reuters
US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists Free Beacon
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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
US imposes travel bans on over 100 Nicaraguan officials amid human rights concerns AP
EU sanctions two Iranians, IRGC unit for participating in Hormuz blockade Reuters
Foreign Businesses Are Fleeing Cuba as Its Economy Collapses Wall Street Journal
Beyond the Embargo: A Toolkit for Squeezing the Cuban Regime FDD
US draft resolution at IAEA demands Iran open up on sites, uranium stocks Reuters
UK readies sanctions against Israel to deter proposed illegal West Bank settlement Guardian
What Beirut’s Port Scanners Miss About Militant Supply Chains War on the Rocks
Innovation in AI-Enabled Harms: The Transference of AI Knowledge from Cybercriminals to Extremists GNET
ISKP Boasts January Bombing of Chinese Nationals; Threatens, Alongside Pro-IS Groups, to Increase Attacks Avenging Uyghur Persecution Militant Wire
Could this one man have been behind terrorist attacks on Jewish communities across Europe? The Guardian
Roman Abramovich’s Behind-the-Scenes Role in Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks Moscow Times
US urges NATO allies to use defense funds to replace Huawei gear Straits Times
Canadian businessman accused of aiding Russia sanctioned by EU, but not Ottawa Globe and Mail
China Introduces New Outbound Investment Laws To Prevent U.S. Decoupling FDD
Report on the PRC’s Transnational Repression and Malign Influence U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Xi to Leave China for First Time This Year. Destination: Pyongyang. Wall Street Journal
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Trump DOJ Killed Criminal Probe of Sen. Jim Justice’s Southern Coal ProPublica
DOJ Moves to Strip U.S. Citizenship from 17 Naturalized Sex Offenders, Fraudsters, Drug Dealers, and More Justice Department
Federal agencies made $186 billion in improper payments last year, watchdog finds Washington Times
Prosecute Orbán’s inner circle over ‘stolen’ billions, Hungary’s anti-corruption watchdog says Politico
Bank boss contests FCA fine for not revealing Venezuela and US penalties Financial Times
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Former cyber executive turned whistleblower accuses IBM of covering up several data breaches TechCrunch
Check Point links VPN zero-day attacks to Qilin ransomware gang BleepingComputer
Claude Code Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Steal Credentials From GitHub Decrypt
Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack BleepingComputer
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Honduran Drug Gangs Rule the Streets of San Francisco City Journal
Fishing boss fined for breaching human trafficking court order BBC
Three New Mexico men charged with migrant smuggling, 2 accused of witness killing Washington Times
Homeland security task force investigation results convictions eleven drug traffickers Justice Department
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How a carjacking in Connecticut led back to a man known as the crypto ‘Godfather’ in California AP
The U.S. is investigating two more Mexican governors for connections to cartels Los Angeles Times
Trump expands Cuba sanctions beyond US companies in major crackdown on foreign enablers Fox News
Cuba to suspend Visa and Mastercard transactions, citing US sanctions Reuters
FBI raids $35M SoCal mansion of tech boss charged with sending secret shipments to Iranian military, nuclear programs New York Post
UAE denies role in Sudan genocide as Colombian mercenary scandal grows The Week
British schoolboy sanctioned by Russia for exposing crypto laundering The Times
Scam Center Strike Force Announces Results of U.S. & Private Industry ‘Disruption Week’ Justice Department
Member of an International Money Laundering Organization Pleads Guilty to Laundering Millions of Dollars in Drug Proceeds Justice Department
Trump’s Boat Strikes Have Failed to Curb Cocaine Flow to U.S., Experts Say New York Times
Iran Expands Handala Brand to Physical Threats Recorded Future
House Judiciary Committee Passes Legislation to Prosecute International Trade Crimes U.S. House China Select Committee
United States Announces $36.5 Million Settlement Of Medicare Fraud Lawsuit Against Matrix Medical Network Justice Department
AI-built ransomware toolkit automates EDR evasion, AD discovery BleepingComputer
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Russian Billionaires Donate $3Bln to State Treasury as Deficit Widens Moscow Times
Xi’s surveillance state seeks to identify future dissidents The Times
USTR Seeks Public Comment on the Scope and Operation of a Mechanism to Promote Balanced and Reciprocal Trade with China USTR
Putin signs decree allowing Russian debtors to withhold bank deposits from foreign creditors The Insider
Armenia Asked to Freeze Magnitsky-Linked Funds OCCRP
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Trump Signs Order Directing Customs Crackdown Amid Trade Gaps Bloomberg
House Advances New Sanctions on Russia and Aid to Ukraine New York Times
Qatar’s Influence-Buying in America Is Even Worse Than We Thought Free Press
From Tehran to Havana: Cuba’s role linking Islamic extremists and U.S. activists Washington Times
Norwegian teen, hired by Swedish crime group used by Iran, planned UK murder Reuters
Top AI CEOs Call for Law Protecting Against Biological Weapons Wall Street Journal
The Power of Prison in ISIS Propaganda GW Program on Extremism
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Albania Freezes Assets in Kushner Resort Probe OCCRP
Justice Dept. obtained superseding indictment against Southern Poverty Law Center with new details on donor funds CBS News
How GAO Is Fighting Fraud and Reducing Improper Payments in Government Spending GAO
Why Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Won’t Go Away City Journal
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The worst hacks and breaches of 2026 (so far) TechCrunch
Dashlane issues opaque advisory warning 20 encrypted vaults were stolen Ars Technica
Ultrahuman says hackers accessed customers’ wellness data via internal tool TechCrunch
CISA warns of active attacks exploiting Android, Linux bugs BleepingComputer
Instagram is alerting users who were targeted by hackers during AI chatbot attacks TechCrunch
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Fake California store had hidden entrance to massive smuggling tunnel to Mexico — as four charged New York Post
Cuban Man Pleads Guilty to Labor Trafficking Justice Department
Illegal Aliens Sentenced for Distribution of Kilogram Quantities of Fentanyl and Heroin in Myrtle Beach Justice Department
Mexico arrests suspected cartel figure tied to killing of Vizsla Silver workers Reuters
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
