Philippine investigators say Alice Guo, ex-mayor of the Bamban town, owned the land on which a “pig butchering” scam center was built, housing ~3,000 scammers
most of them Chinese—slept between shifts as scammers. Nearby, police seized thousands of devices with fake social-media profiles and financial records. https://www.wsj.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchen...
Law enforcement officials worldwide say Chinese mafia boss Wan Kuok-koi, aka Broken Tooth, has played a central role in the emergence of “pig butchering” scams
Chinese mobster known as Broken Tooth is sanctioned by U.S. but remains free, selling swag and cutting ribbons Bluesky: @toferh . X: @kleptocracyintv and @jchengwsj . Forums: r/geopolitics Bluesky: To...
How Tony Sayegh, head of public affairs at a major TikTok investor and an official in the first Trump admin, led the effort to win Trump's support for TikTok
A profile of Tony Sayegh and How TikTok's Trump Whisperer Changed Minds in Washington www.wsj.com/business/how... X: @wsjbusiness : Tony Sayegh, the head of public affairs at one of TikTok's biggest i...
Sources: China-linked “Salt Typhoon” hacking campaign breached networks of US ISPs like Verizon and AT&T, potentially gaining access to US wiretap systems
AT&T, Verizon are among broadband providers breached in China-linked ‘Salt Typhoon’ hack Mastodon: @fj@mastodon.social , @adamgurri@mastodon.social , @HackyScientress@chaos.social , and @dymaxion@info...
Guracha Belachew Bersha, a now-freed Ethiopian man, details scamming hundreds while he was enslaved for 16 months in a pig butchering scam center in Myanmar
A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture X: @felizysolo , @mikesmithwriter , @silvermanjacob , @jchengwsj , @jchengwsj , and @jcheng...
Sources: US officials have told Google, Meta, and others about concerns that undersea cables could be vulnerable to tampering by China-owned repair ships
no easy ask in a sector that's globalized by design Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : U.S. officials are privately warning its telecommunications companies: Undersea cables that ferry internet traffic acr...
Documents and officials: the US is investigating if Rockwell Automation's facility in China is exposing critical government assets to a potential cyberattack
updating software to fix vulnerabilities—using only Chinese nationals at the facility in Dalian, a port city at the southern tip of China's Liaoning province.” https://www.wsj.com/... Matthew Pines / ...
How China's mass collection of personal info and its new, unevenly enforced data security rules contribute to a thriving underground market for stolen data
Government's mass collection of personal information aids social control but undermines national security, cybersecurity researchers say Tweets: @joshchin , @jchengwsj , @_karenhao , @jchengwsj , @chr...
An investigation details an operation by Chinese hacking group APT40 to lure graduates who studied English into translating stolen documents via a front company
Thursday, June 30, 2022 // (IG): BB //Weekly Sponsor: Dataminr Tweets: Max Seddon / @maxseddon : “Chinese students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature...
Report: Microsoft hid Bing autofill in the US for politically sensitive Chinese names, affecting Windows search; Microsoft blames a technical error
including those of Xi Jinping and Liu Xiaobo—wouldn't appear in the autofill system in English or Chinese. https://www.wsj.com/... Jonathan Cheng / @jchengwsj : @aatilley Microsoft said it had already...