Global Trends

Singapore Police Force’s Digital Disruption Centre sits under the new Cyber Command, launched on 3 July 2026 at Police Cantonment Complex, and is the unit tasked with finding and taking down online threats before they reach the public—scam sites and other scam enablers, ransomware and malware, and content that is racially or religiously inflammatory—using tools such as AI-assisted detection and powers under the Online Criminal Harms Act rather than waiting for victims to report after the fact.

Google built that licence-verification machinery in response to almost exactly this crisis in India, Kenya, Nigeria and Pakistan between 2021 and 2023. It has not extended it to Bangladesh, a market of some 190 million people where every one of the preconditions — heavy microcredit demand, near-universal mobile wallets, and an app economy running well ahead of its regulator — is present.

Recent months have also seen several cases involving Chinese nationals arrested in Kenya on cyber-related charges. In July 2026, detectives arrested 18 Chinese nationals in a Kilimani apartment described as a suspected cyber fraud workstation, recovering phones, passports and cash.

X’s disclosure of a suspected Chinese bot farm targeting the U.S. AI data-center debate reveals a sophisticated, AI-enabled influence effort that exploits genuine energy-grid stress in the Mid-Atlantic to slow American technological scaling.

Elderly victims aged 65 and above made up 14.4% of all scam victims in the first six months of the year, down from 15.0% a year ago. Yet the average amount lost per elderly victim rose to S$42,347 from S$35,374 in the same period last year — the highest among all age groups.

While police disruption efforts intensified, with over 37,500 WhatsApp lines and 31,600 online monikers taken down, scammers continue to exploit Meta's social reach and messaging scale to run e-commerce, job and investment scams — using Facebook ads to lure victims before shifting them to WhatsApp groups for the final con.

OnePay resembles like Chinese 刷单 (brushing / order-completion) pattern used by illegal payment gateways

India orders Google to disable 160+ Firebase projects used as banking malware backend as per notices uploaded on Lumen DB. The move will safeguard thousands of banking customers who have been infected by android based malwares

A single physical device contains 20 phones + free group-control (fleet-management) software; manufacturer owns the entire phone system source code. A virtual SIM card's information is built in: ICCID, IMSI, MCC, MNC, and PhoneNumber can all be written, and the SIM information is globally readable by both the system and apps.

Sparco Plaza (Gulberg Greens) was the location where all foreigners were operating from. All 258 had entered on visit, tourist and business visas, according to the report. Is Pakistan Becoming the New Hub for Global Cyber-Scam Call Centers?

Prime Minister Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão said on Thursday that the Government will apply a zero-tolerance policy towards illegal online activities to protect national security and Timor-Leste's reputation. The government is now fast-tracking a cybersecurity package, including a new criminal code for digital crimes, blocking powers, and digital evidence rules. Between raids, police are working with community leaders for intelligence — the same method that led to the Comoro and Bazartete raids.

Citizens warned not to reply or pay as phishing scam circulates under official seal | Report phishing on signal-spam.fr and to PHISHING ([email protected])