Indonesia detains 103 foreigners, including from China, Malaysia in suspected cybercrime raid
Indonesian immigration authorities have detained 103 foreign nationals after a raid at a villa on the resort island of Bali, officials said on Thursday.
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22 Chinese nationals jailed in Zambia over multinational cybercrimes
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — A Zambian court on Friday jailed 22 Chinese nationals over cybercrimes that included internet fraud and online scams targeting Zambians and other people from Singapore, Peru and the United Arab Emirates.
Arrest of Wang Yunhe in Singapore, alleged to have run world’s largest botnet, a major blow to cybercrime: experts
“Bringing down a botnet is a big thing, it means cutting off access to other cybercriminals who would have used this network of zombie residential computers for nefarious purposes,” said David Siah, the executive vice-president for Southeast Asia-Australia at the Centre of Strategic Cyberspace & International Studies think tank.
Chinese national Wang Yunhe arrested in Singapore for running ‘likely world’s largest’ cybercrime botnet, US says
An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least US$99 million in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation and financial fraud including pandemic relief scams.
Thailand's low-key deportations to China latest scamdemic twist
BANGKOK -- Thailand's biggest-known deportation in well over a decade has thrust the kingdom into China's stepped-up war on cybercrime, and observers say it could signal a major shift in Southeast Asia's rampant scamming and human trafficking industries away from conflict-torn Myanmar.
Lockbit cybercrime gang disrupted by Britain, U.S. and EU
LONDON (Reuters) -- Lockbit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims' data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation, the gang and U.S. and U.K. authorities said on Monday.
Sextortion training materials found on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, according to new report
A form of cybercrime called "financial sextortion" is rapidly rising in North America and Australia, with a major portion driven by a non-organized cybercriminal group in West Africa who call themselves "Yahoo Boys," according to a new study from the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI).
Sri Lanka Parliament passes bill to regulate online content
Opposition lawmakers and rights groups say the legislation will stifle debate ahead of elections.