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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
Block Agrees to $964 Million Penalty on Money-Laundering Lapses. Block Inc. set aside more money to resolve a years long probe by the Department of Justice into its anti-money laundering program. Bloomberg
The Little-Known Chinese Bank in the Middle of Iranian and Russian Money Flows Wall Street Journal
Paraguay seizes major digital bank tied to president, leaving millions in limbo Associated Press
TV host who proposed to Tom Brady arrested by ICE in $160 million fraud scheme — after five years on the run New York Post
FBI Probes Autism Therapy Provider That Billed $30,000 a Day Wall Street Journal
Trump’s Russia Sanctions Reversal to Face Congressional Test Wall Street Journal
China Eastern Airlines’ former chairman Liu Shaoyong sentenced to 14 years for bribery Reuters
Serbian Bank Tied to Outgoing Regime Collapses After Internal Vault Theft OCCRP
Ex-beauty queen faces fraud, money-laundering, computer crime probe Bangkok Post
Eager to Rebut Rogue-Nation Image, North Korea Denies Role in Binance Heist Wall Street Journal
Binance says fake job interviews used as part of $6.3bn crypto hack BBC
27-year-old tech star jailed over $7m fraud Telegraph
New Wave of Refrigeration Cyberattacks Hits Supermarkets Across Europe, Forcing Stores to Pull Food The Hacker News
DOJ warns FBI data breach likely extends to Justice Department employees Politico
ZachXBT Suspects Cover-Up as Tally on Suspected EU Theft Climbs to $133 Million Unchained
Justin Sun seeks sanctions against World Liberty, alleging Trump-linked firm hid UAE ties The Block
Crypto scammers are capitalizing on anti-Muslim bigotry CNN
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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
Syria says it foiled Hezbollah plot to attack Homs oil refinery Reuters
Israeli Claims of Iranian Chemical Weapons Divide U.S. Officials New York Times
Iraq Sentences Nine French ISIS Members to Prison Terms of Up to 20 Years Kurdistan24
Alberta teen accused of terrorism offences connected to ISIS Global News
Islamic State has stepped up attempted attacks against Israel since October 7, data shows Jerusalem Post
Not a game: Europol and partners target terrorist role-playing online Europol
US billionaire leads swap plan to buy Lukoil’s overseas assets Reuters
SK Hynix’s New York chip plans hit snag over US restrictions on China Reuters
How Smugglers Get Expensive Memory Chips to China from South Korea The Information
China Stock Market’s Hidden Problem: Foreign Investors Get a Different Truth Wall Street Journal
Russia probes Family Federation; crackdown may be related to Ukraine support Washington Times
Confucius Institutes still active in K-12 education Washington Times
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London court rejects ex-Nigeria governor’s appeal in corruption case Reuters
‘Dubai Papers’: Paris trial for ‘large-scale tax fraud operation’ begins Le Monde
Auction sales of luxury homes seized in $3b laundering case falter amid mismatched expectations Straits Times
Nepal Anti-graft Body Charges ex-PM Madhav Nepal, 96 Others with Corruption OCCRP
Myanmar extradition case dropped for ex-board member of American Chamber of Commerce Associated Press
Justice Dept. Sends Target Letters to Democrats in Escalation of Alaska Inquiry New York Times
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Brazil’s Biggest Bitcoin Exchange Says It Will Refund Users After a $40 Million Hack Decrypt
Liquid Network Restores Full Bitcoin Backing Two Months After $320M Exploit Decrypt
Chainstack Reports Production Systems Breach Exposing Customer Data and Password Hashes The Hacker News
Google dismantles botnet secretly running on 1.3 million Android TV boxes Ars Technica
Revolve card breach: 1.5 million people may be affected Malwarebytes
Police seize over 100 servers in investment scam crackdown BleepingComputer
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U.S. Assisted Venezuela in Deadly Drone Strike New York Times
Jordanian authorities arrest 33 in major drug trafficking crackdown Arab News
Instagram Trafficking Lawsuit Partially Revived on Appeal Bloomberg Law
Powerful Haitian gang leader writes UN seeking dialogue as clashes intensify Associated Press
DRC Orders Probe into Illegal Mining Following Major Copper and Cobalt Seizure OCCRP
Americans urged to avoid dangerous border state despite US lifting shelter order Fox News
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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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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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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
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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
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
