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Swift Bypass, Risk Recipe, and Crypto Ban
Illicit Edge - Edition for August 5, 2026
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Greetings! It’s August 5, and we’re tracking today’s top stories: China completes first Malaysia payment in digital yuan, House Committees Investigate DoorDash’s Use of Chinese AI, Minnesota's ban on crypto ATMs goes into effect after citizens report losing nearly $1M in scams, smuggling gasoline into Mexico earns cartels millions, and much more…
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🎯 FEATURED STORY
Swift Bypass: China completes first Malaysia payment in digital yuan. Deal advances Beijing’s push to expand the digital yuan through alternative cross-border clearing channels beyond Swift system. South China Morning Post
🔥 TOP STORIES
House Committees Investigate DoorDash’s Use of Chinese AI: A Recipe for Risk House Select Committee on the CCP
Minnesota's ban on crypto ATMs goes into effect after citizens report losing nearly $1M in scams Fox Business
Contraband fuel: Smuggling gasoline into Mexico earns cartels millions Los Angeles Times
New Report on Failure of Wall Street Banks to Blow the Whistle on Jeffrey Epstein’s Trafficking and Laundering Schemes U.S. Senate Finance Committee
FBI Agent Is Accused of Taking Cryptocurrency From Suspect’s Accounts WSJ
Alert to Countries, Companies, and Other Entities Regarding North Korean IT Workers U.S. Department of State
Liechtenstein's anti-money laundering data hacked Euronews
Welcome to Dubai: Kinahan Cartel's Visas Revealed Bellingcat
Hackers steal over $130M by exploiting bug in offline hardware wallets TechCrunch
Fraud Division Announces Charges Against 19 Defendants in Medicaid Home Health Aide Schemes DOJ
AI Fuels 55% of African Cybercrimes as Losses Top $480 Million OCCRP
US Supreme Court won't halt $655 million judgment against Palestinians over attacks Reuters
Recovered chat logs show how hackers are abusing U.S. AI models Axios
IN THE NEWS
🚩 RUSSIA & CHINA
The coalition of the wavering: Is Bulgaria the Kremlin’s new Trojan Horse in Europe? The Insider
Trump admin drafting ban on Chinese data center devices Reuters
Russian businesses erase Durov-linked products after 'terrorist' designation Recorded Future
The Next Phase of China’s Minority Crackdown: Forced Assimilation Is Now the Law Foreign Affairs
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🚀 SANCTIONS & TERROR
Syria tells US it is willing to drastically drop Russian oil imports Reuters
10 “shadow fleet” tankers awaiting icebreakers in the Kara Sea are likely carrying oil from Russia’s Arctic fields The Insider
Iran Plotted Wider War With Help of Its Proxies NYT
Can Hamas Really Be Disarmed? Inside the Gaza Peace Deal WSJ
Deadly suicide bombing targeting anti-militant protesters in Pakistan Sky News
💸 CORRUPTION & FINANCIAL CRIME
Inside New York's medical fraud capital where often empty senior centers bill Medicaid $100M-a-year for patients New York Post
Former Honduras president to face corruption trial free of custody UPI
The Rise and Fall of Kyrgyzstan’s Seemingly Untouchable Security Chief OCCRP
Six Indicted in Czech $20M VAT Fraud Case OCCRP
Florida firm to pay $14M over 'bogus' Medicare diagnoses UPI
🔐 CRYPTO & CYBER
Senators seek SEC probe of President Trump's memecoin as crypto bill enters into a pivotal week The Block
ExfilSquad hackers leak info of over 100,000 UK police officers, staff BleepingComputer
INC Ransomware Emerges as Dominant Actor Exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaws Hacker News
Russian hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi networks to spy on travelers Recorded Future
Hong Kong police flag $3.3 million romance scam involving fake crypto app The Block
🚚 TRAFFICKING
Five Amazon countries arrest hundreds in major crackdown on environmental crime Washington Post
Florida man pleads guilty in scheme smuggling guns to Haiti Washington Times
In Vietnam, diamonds are not forever after smuggling ring bust Bloomberg
Federal Officials Announce Major Arrests in International Drug Smuggling Case DOJ
Mohamed Fayed victims were human trafficked Telegraph
Migrants smuggled out of Britain to Spain Telegraph
“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.” —Julius Caesar
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