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Global Crackdown Arrests 276, Shuts 9 Crypto Scam Centers, Seizes $701M

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STIX ID: report--ceb030be-ce0e-5f6c-94ba-828aa1678151

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2026-05-04

Date Updated: 2026-05-05

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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A multinational investigation led by Dubai Police with U.S. and Chinese partners disrupted large-scale cryptocurrency investment fraud operations (pig-butchering/romance scams) that involved human trafficking, hundreds of arrests, seizure/restraint of hundreds of millions in crypto, and sanctions against Cambodian facilitators; investigators also attributed widespread infrastructure abuse including thousands of lure domains, a Telegram recruitment channel, and an Android banking trojan MaaS that enables real-time surveillance, credential theft, overlay phishing on banking apps, and approval-phishing attacks to drain wallets.

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