SpaceX says it has disabled more than 2,000 Starlink devices connected to scam compounds in Myanmar after politicians and others called on the company to crack down on scammers using its kits for fast satellite internet. The vice-president of Starlink’s business operations, said in a post on X last week that the company “proactively identified and disabled over 2,500 Starlink Kits in the vicinity of suspected ‘scam centers’” in Myanmar. She cited the takedowns as an example of how the company
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Ransomware, as the name suggests, is malicious software designed to block access to a computer system or encrypt its data until a sum of money (a ransom) is paid. These attacks have been carried out on both individuals and corporations. “With ransomware groups leveraging increasingly sophisticated methods, companies in the region are all feeling the pressure as attackers exploit vulnerabilities in the increasingly complex corporate IT and network infrastructure,” said Adrian Hia, managing dire
Sewing machines are not needed in Thailand’s sweatshops. Up to 100,000 victims of human trafficking could be held in compounds in Myanmar, Thai police are warning, forced to operate round-the-clock cybercrime campaigns via workstations and call centers set up there.
Thai Police General Thatchai Pitaneelaboot, director of the Anti-Human Trafficking Center, reported that tens of thousands of kidnapped people are being held in captivity and forced to work the scams, which are run by 30 to 40 Chine
