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Georgia Busts Fraudulent Call Center Ring

The Prosecution Office of the country of Georgia announced the arrest of seven suspected members of an organized crime group operating transnational fraudulent call centers and laundering “large amounts of money” made through criminal activities.

US: China’s Hackers Hijack Small Routers to Reach Big Targets

The United States announced the disruption of a botnet made of hundreds of U.S.-based small office or home office (SOHO) routers that were hijacked by state-sponsored hackers from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in order to be used to attack U.S. infrastructure.

Illegal Copper Mine Shutdown in Brazil

Brazilian authorities closed on Tuesday an illegal copper mine that operated with 26 workers in slave-like conditions. Two Brazilians and a Chinese were identified as the ones running the mine, which had up to 14 illegal extraction points. Police presumes the extracted ore was taken to China.

Europol Busts Sham Weddings Idyll in Cyprus

Fifteen people, including four deemed “high-value targets,” were apprehended in a Europol-coordinated operation aimed at dismantling a network orchestrating sham marriages to aid illicit immigration into the European Union, Europol said Wednesday in a statement.