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British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents

ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.

www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug Hunting Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms.

Born out of an internal hackathon, Amazon’s Autonomous Threat Analysis system uses a variety of specialized AI agents to detect weaknesses and propose fixes to the company’s platforms. www.wired.com/story/amazon...

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

NEW: The US Department of Justice issued a warrant demanding SpaceX seize and disable Starlink devices and accounts being used at a scam compound in Myanmar.

At least 9 Starlink devices were linked to a crypto scam that stole $6 million people, an FBI affidavit says

Story with @lhn.bsky.social

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

legal documents cite a WIRED investigation from earlier this year, which revealed that scam compounds in Myanmar have been using Starlink

www.wired.com/story/doj-is...

Satellite image of Tai Chang scam compound with alleged number of Starlink dishes on the roof of each building

Satellite image of Tai Chang scam compound with alleged number of Starlink dishes on the roof of each building

Another affidavit claims there were at least 79 Starlink dishes on the roof of the notorious Tai Chang scam compound.

People trafficked to run scams at Tai Chang have been subject to "rape, torture, and murder," the affidavit says.

(Images include the alleged number of dishes on each building)

Satellite image from affidavit linked to SpaceX, saying 26 satellites dishses are on the roofs of one cluster of buildings

The affidavit says experts analyzed buildings at the Three Pagodas Pass scam compounds and identified at least 26 Starlink satellite dishes on the roofs of buildings

The affidavit says:

"The TARGET PROPERTY [Starlink devices] and the TARGET [accounts] ACCOUNTS play a substantial role, and therefore are involved in, the WEALTHOB wire fraud and money laundering conspiracies focused on transferring U.S. victims’ funds abroad”

*from people, sigh

Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.

Affidavits reviewed by WIRED cite previous @mattburgess1.bsky.social reporting revealing the use of Starlink systems in scam compounds in Myanmar:

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

NEW: DOJ issued warrant to Starlink over systems allegedly used in wire fraud and money laundering operations aimed at Americans; @lhn.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop

DOJ Issued Seizure Warrant to Starlink Over Satellite Internet Systems Used at Scam Compound A new US law enforcement initiative is aimed at crypto fraudsters targeting Americans—and now seeks to seize infrastructure it claims is crucial to notorious scam compounds.

NEW: The US Department of Justice issued a warrant demanding SpaceX seize and disable Starlink devices and accounts being used at a scam compound in Myanmar.

At least 9 Starlink devices were linked to a crypto scam that stole $6 million people, an FBI affidavit says

Story with @lhn.bsky.social

🚀 New on @isoc-pulse.bsky.social — I analyzed 3.5 years of Starlink IP geolocation data. From Gaza to Mars, the results reveal how this network has expanded (and surprised me) around the world.

Canadian Travel to the U.S. Declines for 10th Straight Month

Canadian Travel to the U.S. Declines for 10th Straight Month www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

AI-Generated Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.

The most horrifying AI slop of ICE raids you can possibly imagine is wildly viral on Facebook, collectively totaling tens of millions of views from a single account. First spotted by @chadloder.bsky.social

www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Treasury Sanctions Burma Armed Group and Companies Linked to Organized Crime Targeting Americans WASHINGTON — Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army (DKBA), a Burmese armed group, along with four of its senio...

The US Department of Justice, FBI, and Secret Service is creating a new "Scam Center Strike Force" to tackle cybercriminals running scam centers in Burma, Cambodia, and Laos

Guess that is just my job 😂

Yeah, I think ultimately this sentence gives that away:

"The target a school is given will be based on attendance levels achieved by others in similar circumstances, including deprivation, location and pupils’ needs"

This Is the Platform Google Claims Is Behind a 'Staggering’ Scam Text Operation Google is suing 25 people it alleges are behind a “relentless” scam text operation that uses a phishing-as-a-service platform called Lighthouse.

Google is suing 25 people it claims are associated with a massive scam text operation using a phishing-as-a-service platform called Lighthouse. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the details on how all this works and ends up with you getting annoying texts from fraudsters:

All schools in England to be given AI-generated pupil attendance targets Unions decry move, saying it will put more pressure on headteachers without tackling absence from classrooms

*Why* does it need to be AI-generated?

USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.

The very same ones

www.wired.com/story/usps-s...

Smishing Triad: The Scam Group Stealing the World’s Riches Millions of scam text messages are sent every month. The Chinese cybercriminals behind many of them are expanding their operations—and quickly innovating.

These scammers:

www.wired.com/story/smishi...

This Is the Platform Google Claims Is Behind a 'Staggering’ Scam Text Operation Google is suing 25 people it alleges are behind a “relentless” scam text operation that uses a phishing-as-a-service platform called Lighthouse.

NEW: Google is taking legal action against Chinese cybercriminals responsible for sending out millions of scam text messages—including those parcel delivery scams.

Google hopes the lawsuit will help to disrupt the scammers' sprawling infrastructure

Apple Pulls China’s Top Gay Dating Apps After Government Order The removal of Blued and Finka marks another setback for China’s marginalized LGBTQ+ community.

SCOOP: China's top 2 gay dating apps, Blued and Finka, became unavailable on app stores over the weekend. Apple confirmed to WIRED that it removed the two apps following "an order from the Cyberspace Administration of China."

latest with @lmatsakis.bsky.social

Tank interview: A hacking kingpin reveals all to the BBC One of the world's most prominent cyber-criminals speaks to the BBC in an exclusive interview.

"Paranoia is a constant friend of hackers." In an exclusive interview for our podcast, we went inside a Colorado prison to interview former Most Wanted cyber criminal 'Tank'. Vyacheslav Penchukov, climbed to the top of the Russian-speaking cyber-underworld.
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Very much looking forward to listening (and reading!)

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

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The Body as a Password: The Cost of Face ID Convenience is costing people their freedom. Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities, writes Afsaneh Rigot.

"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot

Jake you are amazing. Keep up the good fight 🫡

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Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.