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Indian fraud has moved from impersonating people to impersonating the state. The new playbook does not pretend to be your bank or your nephew. It borrows the face and voice of a
Every July 30th, the world marks the Day Against Trafficking in Persons. For most of the observance's history, that meant stories about forced labor, domestic servitude,
By Sanjana Rathi Most crimes have a clear moment you can point to — a break-in, a stolen wallet, a physical assault. Stalkerware doesn't work that
A generation ago, a child's social world stopped at the front door or, at most, reached as far as the family telephone cord. Today, that world
A Week in Victoria Falls Earlier this year, law enforcement officers, national CERT/CIRT/SOC teams, and cybersecurity practitioners from across Africa and the Arab States gathered in
SUNDAY SPECIAL | Cyber Intelligence Review | 12 July 2026 THREAT ALERT · RUSSIAN INTELLIGENCE · SOCIAL ENGINEERING Russian intelligence services are impersonating tech support bots to seize control of your private
Counterfeit medicine is one of the more quietly devastating problems in global healthcare. It doesn't make headlines the way a disease outbreak does, but its reach
Why the Old Framing Falls Short Much of the popular writing on West African cybercrime repeats the same three data points: cybersecurity budgets are thin, awareness is low,
A New Kind of Scam, Hiding in Plain Sight Scroll through TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts long enough and you'll run into them: oddly satisfying
A State Government Draws a Line Kebbi State has formally declared a crackdown on a cybercrime network known as "Yan Vocal," pledging to dismantle the group
A Global Threat Hiding in Plain Sight For nearly ten years, a sophisticated cybercriminal platform known as SniperDz operated in the shadows of the internet, quietly powering phishing
Four warnings. Four months. One face. And a system of trust being systematically dismantled. India's oldest stock exchange has found itself fighting an unprecedented battle — not
An Algerian hacker's arrest in Spain and extradition to the United States exposes the legal fault lines, diplomatic machinery, and enforcement asymmetries that define the fight
A retired Bank of America and Merrill Lynch client recently went public on LinkedIn with a dispute that's becoming more common as banking moves further onto
A LinkedIn post warning that "AI could steal fingerprints from high-resolution selfies" has been making rounds this week, illustrated with a photo of a woman
Myanmar has now spent more than three years on the Financial Action Task Force's blacklist of high-risk jurisdictions, alongside North Korea and Iran, and the
The Shift: From Dark Web to Your Phone Karnataka Police have flagged a structural shift in how cybercriminals operate: the dark web, once the primary marketplace for malware,
South Africa's government is sitting on a digital time bomb. Hundreds of state-run websites carry known, unpatched security vulnerabilities — some going back more than a
