The crypto-scam--and why you need to look out for your elders...
Greetings and salutations, and have you checked on your parents lately? Today's blog will...
Crime
Late August and early September drug busts--and Mexican cartel presence--denote worrying signs for CEE
Apart from drones and jets violating Nato/EU airspace, September revealed yet more threats to...
Crime realities in CEE... and still more Russian spy games
This week’s CEE crime-and-grime roundup has got it all. Narcotics, espionage, corruption… Just keep...
A brief update on the vory (thieves-in-law)--and how they turn up like a bad penny
Reader beware, we are back to mafia content, with this post inspired by a...
The CEO scam still reigns--and guitar store cyber-grifts prove it could get you too...
Several years ago--well before COVID--I began encountering the CEO social engineering scam on scale....
Georgian "vor/thief-in-law" detained in Poland, investigation ongoing
As was also noted in today's crime roundup, a wanted thief-in-law (vor v zakone)...
Of elections, meth, murder and (to no surprise) a fraudulent ceasefire...
This edition’s crime and subterfuge rundown boasts a worrying undercurrent. Not a new undercurrent,...
Narcotics and more narcotics--and the risk to business is real
Call it a flood. Or choose to ignore it. Still, the cocaine just keeps...
Crypto-money laundering, the Russian link... and gangs on the rise
Greetings and salutations… And Happy New Year! In truth, 2024 was not exactly a...
Happy Holidays (with a CEE crime/spy roundup and other dark reading to get you through)
This week, it's back to a standard crime and spy roundup (which obviously is...