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Threat Intelligence

Crime Gangs Are Running Bot-Powered Sextortion Factories. Young Men Are the Target.

Organised criminal networks are using AI-generated fake personas, automated accounts, and psychological pressure to extort young men out of thousands of dollars. South Australia alone lost $217,000 in a single year.

4 min read
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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.

3 min read
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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.

4 min read
A close-up of a driver's license being scanned into a database system, with blue digital light reflecting across the card's surface and blurred server racks in
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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A map of Southeast Asia with digital fraud operation networks illustrated, showing cryptocurrency flows and AI-assisted scam infrastructure spread across the re
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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.

4 min read
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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.

4 min read
Illustration: a jungle compound surrounded by razor wire fencing, corrugated metal structures, and armed personnel
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Inside Myanmar's Jungle Scam Factories: How a Global Crime Industry Evades Every Crackdown

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

3 min read
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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.

3 min read
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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.

3 min read
Illustration: a cramped compound room packed with multiple laptops, SIM cards in organized trays
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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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