Oleksii Lytvynenko pleaded guilty in Nashville to a wire fraud conspiracy that turned a Tennessee county's 911 backbone into a cash register for Conti. He wrote the loader. Somebody else collected the Bitcoin. The bill came due in a dispatch room at 3 a.m.
Federal prosecutors say two men in the Republic of Georgia ran a Bitcoin laundering service called AudiA6 for almost five years, washing ransomware payouts and dark web revenue through 10,333 transactions. The arrests happened on a Wednesday. The machine had been running since 2021.
A Malta man sent money to a woman he thought he loved. Nigerian police say the money walked through a daughter's accounts into her mother's Ecobank account, where it was spent.
Six people, including two of Cambodia's most senior law enforcement officers, were charged this week with accepting bribes to let foreign online scam networks operate without interference. The machine generating between $12.5 billion and $19 billion a year in fraud did not just run in the shadows. It ran with a badge in front of it.