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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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Swift Bypass: China completes first Malaysia payment in digital yuan. Deal advances Beijing’s push to expand the digital yuan through alternative cross-border clearing channels beyond Swift system. South China Morning Post
House Committees Investigate DoorDash’s Use of Chinese AI: A Recipe for Risk House Select Committee on the CCP
Minnesota’s ban on crypto ATMs goes into effect after citizens report losing nearly $1M in scams Fox Business
Contraband fuel: Smuggling gasoline into Mexico earns cartels millions Los Angeles Times
New Report on Failure of Wall Street Banks to Blow the Whistle on Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking and Laundering Schemes U.S. Senate Finance Committee
FBI Agent Is Accused of Taking Cryptocurrency From Suspect’s Accounts WSJ
Alert to Countries, Companies, and Other Entities Regarding North Korean IT Workers U.S. Department of State
Liechtenstein’s anti-money laundering data hacked Euronews
Welcome to Dubai: Kinahan Cartel’s Visas Revealed Bellingcat
Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets TechCrunch
Fraud Division Announces Charges Against 19 Defendants in Medicaid Home Health Aide Schemes DOJ
AI Fuels 55% of African Cybercrimes as Losses Top $480 Million OCCRP
US Supreme Court won’t halt $655 million judgment against Palestinians over attacks Reuters
Recovered chat logs show how hackers are abusing U.S. AI models Axios
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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 tells US it is willing to drastically drop Russian oil imports Reuters
10 “shadow fleet” tankers awaiting icebreakers in the Kara Sea are likely carrying oil from Russia’s Arctic fields The Insider
Iran Plotted Wider War With Help of Its Proxies NYT
Can Hamas Really Be Disarmed? Inside the Gaza Peace Deal WSJ
Deadly suicide bombing targeting anti-militant protesters in Pakistan Sky News
After months on the Iran war’s sidelines, Yemen’s Houthis open a dangerous new front Washington Post
CAIR, a Muslim Nonprofit, Gets a Terrorism Label in Florida and Texas New York Times
Palestine Action terror ban to go to Supreme Court as 117 arrested at protest Sky News
The coalition of the wavering: Is Bulgaria the Kremlin’s new Trojan Horse in Europe? The Insider
Trump admin drafting ban on Chinese data center devices Reuters
Russian businesses erase Durov-linked products after ‘terrorist’ designation Recorded Future
The Next Phase of China’s Minority Crackdown: Forced Assimilation Is Now the Law Foreign Affairs
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Inside New York’s medical fraud capital where often empty senior centers bill Medicaid $100M-a-year for patients New York Post
Former Honduras president to face corruption trial free of custody UPI
The Rise and Fall of Kyrgyzstan’s Seemingly Untouchable Security Chief OCCRP
Six Indicted in Czech $20M VAT Fraud Case OCCRP
Florida firm to pay $14M over ‘bogus’ Medicare diagnoses UPI
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Senators seek SEC probe of President Trump’s memecoin as crypto bill enters into a pivotal week The Block
ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff BleepingComputer
INC Ransomware Emerges as Dominant Actor Exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaws Hacker News
Russian hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi networks to spy on travelers Recorded Future
Hong Kong police flag $3.3 million romance scam involving fake crypto app The Block
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Five Amazon countries arrest hundreds in major crackdown on environmental crime Washington Post
Florida man pleads guilty in scheme smuggling guns to Haiti Washington Times
In Vietnam, diamonds are not forever after smuggling ring bust Bloomberg
Federal Officials Announce Major Arrests in International Drug Smuggling Case DOJ
Mohamed Fayed victims were human trafficked Telegraph
Migrants smuggled out of Britain to Spain Telegraph
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Kremlin Connections: The Russia links to a £600m UK theme park. French company Puy du Fou worked with a sanctioned oligarch on plans for a Crimea resort longer than disclosed, and later courted Iran and China. Guardian
A Cement Giant Paid Terrorists. Victims Want a Share of Its $778 Million Penalty. WSJ
Slim Shady: Smugglers Eye Big Profits Running Weight Loss Drugs into Brazil OCCRP
Swiss Slap – UBS Fined $125 Million by U.S. Regulators for Money Laundering Violations Reuters
Iran-linked exchange sent $676 million to Binance in alleged sanctions-evasion operation Block
Scope of Hacks on U.S. Water Supply Widens as Evidence Points to Iran New York Times
Italian-led EU force boards sanctioned tanker from Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’ in Mediterranean Reuters
Capital One bank cites money-laundering probe to justify closing Trump Organization accounts AFP
Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation OpenAI
DHS Announces Addition of 43 Companies to UFLPA Entity List DHS
Coldcard Hardware Wallet Flaw Linked to $70 Million Bitcoin Theft in 41 Minutes Hacker News
EU Announces New Sanctions Targeting Southeast Asia-Based Online Scam Networks The Diplomat
Europe sanctioned crypto exchange HTX. Experts say the firm is deploying tactics that could blunt the impact. ICIJ
Turkey-Based Global Director of Sham Charity Arrested and Charged with Conspiring to Provide Material Support to Hamas DOJ
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Russian Banks Lack Cash to Buy Government Debt, Sberbank Executive Says Moscow Times
Chinese police AI algorithm tracks bitcoin money laundering with 90% accuracy South China Morning Post
How China Keeps Tabs on Foreigners New York Times
Russian ship defies sanctions to send military vehicles to Mali BBC
Russia is sharing valuable electronic intel with Iran, officials say, as U.S. war drags on NBC News
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Concerns about tariff authority in Russia sanctions bill undermine universal support for Ukraine Washington Times
Sanctions Drive Growth of a Parallel Shipping Economy Maritime Executive
US Treasury Sanctions Iranian Firms Taking Bitcoin for Hormuz Passage Decrypt
What New U.S. Sanctions Mean for the Sudan Civil War Washington Institute
Vitol, Cargill, Glencore cut ties with Radiant World Reuters
Do sanctions undermine Swiss neutrality? SWI
Serbia secures US sanctions waiver for its Russian-owned NIS oil firm Reuters
Pakistan Police Station Bombing Kills at Least 14 New York Times
The Islamist Threat Isn’t Only Terrorism WSJ
Poilievre asks public safety minister to declare Iran-backed group linked to synagogue attack a terrorist entity National Post
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Nigerian scammers bilk the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer cash Washington Times
Swedish Fraudster Jailed in U.S. Over ‘Gold Phones’ Bearing Pablo Escobar’s Name Complex
Brazen social media fraud schemes wreak havoc as Trump official issues stark warning for ‘fraudfluencers’ Fox News
VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why TechCrunch
From Tehran to Texas: How a Convicted Iranian Pyramid Scheme Ringleader Built a New Life in the U.S. OCCRP
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Security Flaw Placed 30 Years of DNA Evidence at Risk of Hacking WSJ
CaptiveCrunch: Midnight Blizzard targets travelers worldwide for malware delivery and credential theft Microsoft Security
Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers BleepingComputer
Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info BleepingComputer
Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers Ars Technica
Chinese-Speaking Threat Actor Harnesses AI Models for Autonomous Cyberattacks Unit 42
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People smugglers cut prices to exploit migrant crisis Telegraph
Inside Myanmar’s scam centers: how AFP exposed a global web of fraud AFP
Human trafficking in Mexico: the dark side of tourism DW
Spain’s PM blames trafficking mafia for ongoing Ceuta migrant crisis AFP
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
