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CYBEROct 16Thai raid foils cross-border cable ruse powering Myanmar scam centreAuthorities in Thailand have uncovered an audacious scheme involving hundreds of metres of internet cable sent over the Thai border to keep a suspected Myanmar scam compound online, after finding two ramshackle village homes using enough daily bandwidth to power an entire village. Officers raided the homes in Nong Lu, a Thai border village in Kanchanaburi province, which is the gateway to the Three Pagodas Pass in Myanmar – now a notorious hub for cyber scammers. Many scam centre leaders have...South China Morning Post
CYBERSep 23China cracks down on scam centres in neighbouring MyanmarIn Southeast Asia, hundreds of thousands of people working in fraud centres are scamming people across the world. US authorities suggest the fraudsters are responsible for scams worth almost $10 billion a year against US nationals alone. Victims in Europe, the UK and China have also been targeted. Human rights groups further warn that those working in the centres are often themselves victims of human trafficking – forced to work as slaves.France 24 [en]
CYBERAug 24Operation QUICSILVER Targets Myanmar Government and IT with QUICAgent BackdoorThe Hacker News
CYBERJul 28Myanmar strengthens crackdown on cyber scams , death penalty imposedalbeu.com · Albania
CYBERJul 28Myanmar approves death sentence for cyberscam offencesfreemalaysiatoday.com · Malaysia
CYBERJun 27Exclusive: Infiltrating Myanmar’s scam syndicates101 East goes undercover to expose the playbook of Myanmar’s notorious scam industry.Al Jazeera [en]