A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
How Pig Butchering Scams Work — ProPublica
Thousands have lost huge sums after being lured into fraudulent online investment schemes by seemingly attractive strangers who strike up online conversations with them. Here’s a guide to spotting the telltale signs.
He Leaked the Secrets of a Southeast Asian Scam Compound. Then He Had to Get Out Alive
A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and then escape. This is his story.
I Was Trapped in Chinese Mafia Crypto Slavery | Hacklab | WIRED
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.
When Private AI Chats Become Public: Lessons from Grok’s Privacy Spill
Understand the implications of the Grok breach where hundreds of thousands of private chats were leaked to the public.
Sold to gangs, forced to run online scams: inside Cambodia’s cybercrime crisis
Thousands of people from Taiwan, Vietnam and Thailand have been tricked into slavery and are unable to leave a ‘living hell’
Anatomy of a scam empire: Brains and businesses behind Chen Zhi’s network centred in Cambodia
The Business Times unravels the tangled web of sanctioned collaborators, accused associates and entities, using Handshakes data
Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech
Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.
What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
This type of devastating scheme ensnares victims and takes them for all they’re worth—and the threat is only growing.
Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society
More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.
This machine kills secrets: how WikiLeakers, cypherpunks and hacktivists aim to free the world's information
The barbarians aren't at the gates. They're inside. Thi…
Copy of Digital Masquerade
The Digital Masquerade: Unmasking AI’s Phantom Journalists By Tony Eastin and Sandeep Abraham, CAMS
The hacker crackdown: law and disorder on the electronic frontier
A journalist investigates the past, present, and future…
Hacker News: Honest Edition
Social media scams/scam compounds/disinfo
So-called pig butchering scams, romance scams, disinformation campaigns, etc.
「外国botの世論操作」をXのアルゴリズムのコードで検証、実は報道こそが影響を与えていないか・後編【石井大智の情報空間ウオッチ】｜SlowNews | スローニュース
「外国botが日本の世論を操作」は本当か？ Xが公開したアルゴリズムのコードで検証してみた・前編【石井大智の情報空間ウオッチ】｜SlowNews | スローニュース
Microsoft Teams Has Become a Haven for Scammers in China
「中華系マフィア」に拉致された20代日本人男性が奇跡の「大脱走」…監視の男が見せた「一瞬のスキ」（週刊現代,竹輪 次郎） | 現代ビジネス | 講談社
「『2泊3日で帰る』と話していたのに…」“中華系マフィア”に息子を拉致された「母親の慟哭」（週刊現代,竹輪 次郎） | 現代ビジネス | 講談社
Tracking Suspicious Facebook Accounts After Takaichi’s Taiwan Remarks