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Global sanctions on Russia continue apace, and there are rare admissions from within the country that these are working. Transport Minister, Vitaly Savelyev, has indicated that current trade logistics have been ‘virtually wrecked’, and the news that McDonalds and Starbucks are to permanently leave the country is, to the ordinary Russian, just as disappointing as …
What connects 30,000 civil servants in Mozambique, 25,000 in Cameroon, 16,000 in Tanzania and 12,000 in Kenya? Just one thing: they did not exist. Over the last five years, all such groupings were identified as fraudulently sitting on the assorted government payrolls and accounting for millions of dollars in deliberate or mistaken lost revenue. These …
The virtual world is the latest frontier in the fight against money-laundering. The vastly popular video game Counter-Strike: Global Offensive has been identified as a means by which cyber-criminals can launder and liquidate money. This is done through ‘loot boxes’ (containing gameplay items) which require keys to open – it is these keys, whose prices …
Last year, in New York, a crime that had little to commend it in the way of relative scale, daring or violence, came to trial amid great fanfare. The amount stolen was by no means small fry, but certainly not worthy of the resulting media storm – lucrative book deals have now been signed and …
Plot the key jurisdictions where hackers find the warmest welcome and you would likely come up with the usual suspects: Russia, China, Israel and so on. But one name sits a little incongruously on the list: Brazil. How is it that this state with no state-sponsored ‘hacker armies’, and not a major player in the …
