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Crime Syndicates in Southeast Asia Go Global, Defying Crackdowns

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Cyber crime syndicates that run multi-billion-dollar scam operations across Southeast Asia are still expanding despite recent law enforcement crackdowns, building links from Ireland to Mexico and reaching a potentially irreversible global spillover, the United Nations warned. The transnational criminal networks …

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AI Is Turbocharging Organized Crime, EU Police Agency Warns

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The European Union’s law enforcement agency cautioned Tuesday that artificial intelligence is turbocharging organized crime that is eroding the foundations of societies across the 27-nation bloc as it becomes intertwined with state-sponsored destabilization campaigns. The grim warning came at the …

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Markets/Coverages: Liberty Specialty Markets, Baobab Offer E-Crime Cover for SMEs

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Liberty Specialty Markets (LSM), a division of the US Liberty Mutual Group, and Baobab Insurance, a digital underwriter of technical risks, are offering a new joint e-crime insurance product for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Germany and Austria. LSM …

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Crypto Crime Spills Over From Behind the Screen to Real-Life Violence

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A man says he was tortured for weeks in a New York townhouse. Another in Paris was held for ransom and his finger cut off. A couple in Connecticut were carjacked, beaten and thrown into a van. All, authorities allege, …

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Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Sabotage in Baltic Sea

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The Security Service said it’s conducting a preliminary investigation into the crime … Sweden detained a vessel suspected of damaging a subsea data cable connecting it with Latvia, the third such incident in the Baltic Sea in the past three months.

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Telegram CEO Held Over Alleged Failure to Stop Crime on App

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Pavel Durov, the chief executive officer of Telegram, has been detained in France over claims that the messaging service failed to properly fight crime on the app, including the spread of child sexual abuse material. The 39-year-old Russian-born billionaire was …

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Crimes Against Customers: Part 3 – Technology Crimes

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This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync. Insurance compliance is serious business. Falling out of compliance can have real consequences for everyone from insurance agencies, carriers, MGAs, and MGUs, to individual producers, adjusters, and dually licensed broker-dealers.

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