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Threat Intelligence

Escaped the Scam Compound, Trapped by the Aftermath

Thousands of workers lured or forced into south-east Asia's cyber-fraud factories are now free. Many have nowhere to go.

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Threat Intelligence

Malaysia's Ghost-City Scam Factories: How Criminals Turned a Failed Mega-Development Into a Fraud Hub

Police arrested 335 people running fake investment and romance scams out of empty apartments in Forest City, a $100 billion Malaysian development that was meant to house 700,000 people but never came close.

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Identity & Access

NSW Plans to Share Licence Photos With National Face-Matching Database

A new bill before the New South Wales parliament would connect the state to a federal facial recognition system, hand police access to toll road camera images, and let investigators apply to search seized phones and laptops. Civil liberties groups say the changes amount to mass surveillance with too few safeguards.

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Threat Intelligence

Southeast Asia's Fraud Factories Have Gone Global

A UN report puts the cost of the region's industrialised cyber-fraud industry at up to $114 billion in 2025. Corruption, cryptocurrency, and AI have made it almost impossible to shut down.

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Threat Intelligence

Criminals Are Hijacking Cargo Trucks With Laptops, Not Crowbars

Cargo theft powered by hacking has surged more than 1,500 percent since 2021. The freight industry's patchwork of old systems and thin security budgets has made it an easy mark, and the criminals running these operations are sophisticated enough to move stolen truckloads across borders.

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Threat Intelligence

Inside Myanmar's Jungle Scam Factories: How a Global Crime Industry Evades Every Crackdown

Armed fighters discovered 3,000 captive workers inside a scam compound hidden behind razor wire in Myanmar's jungle. Investigators say the industry is not shrinking. It is moving deeper into the forest.

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Policy & Regulation

Dead Animals on a School Doorstep Led Journalists Into a World of Illegal Bloodsports and Organised Crime

A new BBC podcast follows the trail from 20 mutilated carcasses outside a Hampshire primary school to hare-coursing gangs, the dark web, and allegations of police corruption.

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Policy & Regulation

New Zealand's Privacy Commissioner Warns of a Hidden Threat Inside Your Own Organisation

A quarter of all reported privacy breaches in New Zealand now involve staff snooping on people's personal records. Organised crime is making the problem worse.

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Threat Intelligence

Timor-Leste Police Arrest 314 People in Raids on Scam Call Centre Compounds

A country just 700 kilometres from Darwin has become the latest staging ground for international phone fraud, as police crack down on fortified compounds packed with laptops, SIM cards, and satellite internet equipment.

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