The entrance to O’Smach on the Thailand Cambodia border on March 12, 2026 in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia. The Thai government led a group of foreign press to the O’Smach casino compound near the Chong Chom O’Smach border crossing in Oddar Meanchey province, previously used for scam operations, after clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along the disputed border in December. The interiors show where scammers lived in dormitories and their workspace. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images)
Abdellah Belmili allegedly ran two black-market websites selling stolen financial credentials and custom-built phishing kits targeting major American banks, federal prosecutors say.
As traditional fraud markers become obsolete, we must treat digital identity as critical infrastructure and adopt a layered, real-time defense to neutralize sophisticated crime rings.
The executive order finally calls cyber-enabled fraud what it is: transnational organized crime. Now the U.S. has to act like it—and the private sector has to stop…
Representative Ted Lieu, D-Calif., speaks a press conference. Following a rash of AI-assisted impersonations of U.S. officials, the bill would raise the financial and criminal penalties around using the technology to defraud. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Following a rash of AI-assisted impersonations of U.S. officials, the bill would raise the financial and criminal penalties around using the technology to defraud.
Traffic along Pennsylvania Avenue streaks by the Department of Justice (DOJ) headquarters building at night with the US Capitol in the background on Jan. 24, 2025, in Washington. (J. David Ake/Getty Images)
Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, questions Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on April 2, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden and then-Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, participate in the CNN Presidential Debate at the CNN Studios on June 27. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)