Criminal Networks Get a Boost from New Pig-Butchering-as-a-Service Toolkits

### Executive summary The report describes a mature, service-driven pig-butchering-as-a-service (PBaaS) ecosystem where providers like Penguin and UWORK supply data, accounts, management platforms, hosting, and payment solutions that enable large-scale fraud, money laundering, and human trafficking across Southeast Asia and globally; the ecosystem is highly scalable, increasingly automated, and lowers barriers for criminal actors to run profitable mass fraud operations.