Inside the Dark Economy: Investigating Financial Crime on Telegram
I’ve spent some time investigating financial crime across the open web, dark web forums, and increasingly, across encrypted messaging platforms. Nothing, however, has shifted the threat landscape quite like Telegram. What began as a privacy-focused messaging app has quietly become one of the most active marketplaces for financial fraud, money laundering, carding, crypto laundering, and […]
South Africa Suffers with Third Highest Cybercrime
As if 2020 wasn’t bad enough with a global pandemic that has brought most of the world to its knees, South Africans have experienced an insult to industry by having the third number of cyber crime victims. A report by Accenture shows that even though South Africa ranks 25th in the world’s population, its citizens […]
