Cybersecurity

Southeast Asian casino industry supercharging cyber fraud, UN says

The expanding Southeast Asian casino industry has become the nexus of the region’s criminal ecosystem, including its cyber fraud industry, and it is facilitating large-scale money laundering by organized crime networks, a new United Nations report reveals. The money laundering includes the proceeds from online scams like pig-butchering schemes, where scammers develop a relationship with […]

Cybersecurity

UK sanctions nine linked to cyber trafficking in Southeast Asia

The United Kingdom on Friday sanctioned 14 individuals and entities connected to Southeast Asia’s sprawling online scamming industry — the first such designation directly targeting the human traffickers who con workers into carrying out fraud. The sanctions announced by the Treasury target nine individuals with links to so-called “scam compounds” — where workers are held […]

Cybersecurity

New Report Uncovers 3 Distinct Clusters of China-Nexus Attacks on Southeast Asian Government

An unnamed Southeast Asian government has been targeted by multiple China-nexus threat actors as part of espionage campaigns targeting the region over extended periods of time. “While this activity occurred around the same time and in some instances even simultaneously on the same victims’ machines, each cluster is characterized by distinct tools, modus operandi, and […]