Articles by Sinisa Markovic
A seller on a cybercrime forum is offering a ready-made scam kit for $500, complete with an admin panel that tracks victims, checks their crypto wallets for value, and inflates fake balances to squee�...
More than $12 million has been frozen, and over 20,000 victims have been identified in an international law enforcement operation targeting cryptocurrency and investment scammers.
Authorities also u�...
Actions by authorities from Italy, Romania, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Kosovo and South Korea, supported by Eurojust and Europol, led to the seizure of multiple illegal streaming services.
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Rui-Siang Lin, a Taiwanese national, was sentenced to 30 years in U.S. federal prison for operating Incognito Market, one of the worlds largest illicit online narcotics marketplaces.
Incognito Marke�...
Security teams often spin up vulnerable applications for demos, training, or internal testing. A recent Pentera research report documents how those environments are being left exposed on the public i�...
Financial institutions now have a concrete method for deciding where post-quantum cryptography belongs on their security roadmaps. New research coordinated by Europol sets out a scoring framework tha�...
Criminal groups actively recruit, train, and retain people in structured ways. They move fast, pay in crypto, and place no weight on age.
Young people are dealing with a new kind of addiction. It is�...
A strange charge appears on a bank account. An email claims a package is on the way. A social media account stops accepting a password that worked yesterday. When these moments hit, many people do th�...
Nation-state involvement in crypto increased in 2025, signaling a shift in how on-chain crime operates.
Three waves of crypto crime (Source: Chainalysis)
Research from Chainalysis shows that crypt�...
Rising streaming prices are pushing more viewers toward illegal options. Movies, TV shows, and live sports are now spread across multiple platforms, and keeping up with all of them is expensive. When�...
