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[Link] Court Throws Out Messages Obtained by FBI Honeypot Phone Company Anom

Read: 30/11/2021 www.vice.com

On Tuesday a Finnish court ruled that chat messages secretly gathered by the FBI from encrypted phone company Anom can’t be used as evidence against two particular suspects, according to a report from Finnish outlet Iltalehti.

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[Link] The Pacific is in danger of becoming a semi-narco region

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Four years ago I stood in front of a top level security conference and warned that we have just a few years to get on top of the problem of drugs being trafficked through the Pacific region or it could turn into a semi-narco region, controlled by criminal syndicates.

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[Link] Mr. Robot ‘Plugs’ uTorrent and Pirate Release Groups

Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

The latest episode of award-winning TV show Mr. Robot includes a nod to online pirates. The main character Elliot is shown pirating a movie using uTorrent, while his movie folder lists movies from various pirate groups including YIFY.

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[Link] Drug Kingpin El Mencho's Wife Was Just Arrested in Mexico

Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com

MEXICO CITY—Mexican authorities announced the arrest Tuesday of Rosalinda González Valencia, charged with laundering money for the hyper-violent Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which is led by her husband, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias El Mencho.

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[Link] Two Tourists Killed as Cartels Creep Into Mexico's Tulum Resort Area

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

But the October 20 killings revealed the dark underbelly of Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one that tourism officials along the vacation corridor have struggled to hide.

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[Link] Las Patronas: The Rise of Female Drug Bosses in Latin America

Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com

VICE World News brings you exclusive reporting from Latin America’s criminal underworld on the boss women you’ve never heard of. MEXICO CITY, Mexico — She told me her name was Brenda. When I met her, she had been in the Pavón prison on the outskirts of Guatemala City for 20 years.

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[Link] Sinclair Broadcast 'Disrupted’ by Ransomware Attack

Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com

The TV giant Sinclair Broadcast Group said it was hacked.  According to a press release on Monday, the company said it detected a ransomware attack on Saturday.

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[Link] Police Announce Huge Bust of Mafia’s Cyber Crime Operations

Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com

Police in Europe arrested 106 people accused of working for several Italian Mafia groups and laundering more than 10 million euros they made through various cybercrimes.

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[Link] Step 1: Do a Google search. Ransomware hacker goes rogue, leaks gang's plan.

Read: 26/8/2021 www.nbcnews.com

Someone claiming to work with one of the most notorious ransomware gangs says they’re fed up with how extortion money is divvied up and has leaked a host of the gang's files on a hacker forum.

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[Link] The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

MEDELLIN, Colombia–Authorities in southern Colombia pulled over a cargo truck looking for drugs in early August. But instead of finding a pile of cocaine bricks, the truck was loaded with a sandy, blue-ish black rock called coltan.

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