US charges six in Madagascar NFT dating-scam scheme
Prosecutors say fake dating profiles steered about 800 victims into fraudulent NFT sites and at least about $516,695 in crypto losses.
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19 articles · newest firstChinese national extradited over alleged $37 million investment scam
Prosecutors say a Cambodia-linked ring used fake trading sites and moved victim money into Tether.
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Dutch police extradite Chinese national over Cambodian scam laundering
Zheng Zhao faces up to 20 years after prosecutors say at least $36.9 million from 174 US victims moved through a Bahamas bank into USDT.
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Chinese man extradited to US over $36.9 million crypto scam
Zhen Zhao was arraigned in California after extradition from the Netherlands and faces up to 20 years if convicted.
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OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to 26 more countries, now in 89
Ads remain limited to Free and Go; Plus, Pro, and Enterprise stay ad-free, and OpenAI says it does not sell conversation data.
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Antino Backdoor Uses Outlook and OneDrive for C2 in China-Nexus Espionage Campaign
Cisco Talos says China-nexus UAT-11587 deployed the Antino backdoor against Asian government and policy organizations.
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Researchers find Chinese hacking campaigns targeting AI firms, Asian governments
Chinese state-backed groups phished AI researchers and used the Antino backdoor against Asian governments, hitting about 350 endpoints.
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FBI’s Operation Blackout Takes Down Overseas Scammers Targeting Americans
FBI Operation Blackout seized about $17 billion from overseas scam compounds and arrested hundreds targeting Americans.
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How fast is the web? Explore billions of real-user measurements with BEACON
Cloudflare published BEACON, a daily anonymized dataset of billions of real-user performance measurements from 10,000 large websites.
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BambooToken: The Malware That Speaks MQTT to Stay Under the Radar
Lumen's Black Lotus Labs uncovered BambooToken, a Windows and Linux malware family using MQTT broker-based C2 and DLL sideloading across Asia since February 2023.
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Treasury urges banks to file cyber scam reports, noting nearly $13 billion in losses since 2023
FinCEN urged banks to report cyber scams after a study found $12.7 billion stolen from US victims of crypto investment scams since 2023.
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OFAC Sanctions Chinese Scam Platform Xinbi Guarantee
US Treasury's OFAC sanctioned Chinese scam-platform Xinbi Guarantee, which processed $24bn+, and froze $52.8m in linked cryptoassets.
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US disrupts Xinbi Guarantee marketplace fueling the cyber scam economy
US Treasury sanctions and DOJ seizures take down Xinbi Guarantee, a Telegram marketplace that processed $24B+ for cyber scams, freezing $52.8M.
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US, Britain to coordinate on scam center takedowns
The US and UK signed an MOU to jointly investigate Southeast Asian scam compounds behind fraud that stole over $12 billion from Americans last year.
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Spark RAT Targets Cambodia, Abuses Vulnerable OPSWAT Driver to Disable Security Tools
Acronis details a Spark RAT campaign against Cambodia abusing the vulnerable OPSWAT ardrv.sys driver (CVE-2026-36425) to disable Microsoft Defender and other security tools.
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LLM-Based Social Engineering Scams
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based ChatGPT-powered scam network running romance, crypto-investment, gambling, and fake law-enforcement fraud campaigns.
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RANCOR: Targeted Attacks in South East Asia Using PLAINTEE and DDKONG Malware Families
Unit 42 names RANCOR, a previously unidentified espionage group targeting Southeast Asian political entities with newly discovered PLAINTEE and DDKONG malware families.
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NOKKI Almost Ties the Knot with DOGCALL: Reaper Group Uses New Malware to Deploy RAT
Unit 42 links NOKKI malware to North Korea's Reaper group, uncovering the Final1stspy dropper that deploys the DOGCALL RAT in politically motivated attacks.
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Trump taps cyber firms to go on offensive against criminals
Presidential memorandum allows vetted private companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against transnational cybercrime with advance DOJ and DHS approval.
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Related CVEs
by mentions- CVE-2026-36425<1%6.5An issue in OPSWAT AppRemover Driver (ardrv.sys) v2017.10.02.1551 and earlier in IOCTL handler 0x2420031
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