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Congratulations to The Boston Globe and Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project for winning a Scripps Howard Journalism Award for Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting for "Spotlight Coverage of Steward Health Care.” #SHJAwards scripps.com/fund/journalis…

Cybercriminals are threatening to leak the personal data of every citizen of Paraguay (yes, the entire country❗️). Authorities say they will not pay the $7.4 million ransom demanded by June 13 occrp.org/en/news/exclus…

After IStories Media and OCCRP exposed ties between Telegram’s backend providers and Russian intelligence services, the company issued denials, its infrastructure partner launched a media offensive, and cybersecurity experts warned of systemic privacy risks. Learn more about how

This might be a landmark in known cybersecurity incidents today, according to experts. The personal data of every citizen of Paraguay (yes, the whole country!) is threatened to be leaked by cybercriminals. Authorities told OCCRP they will not pay the $7.4 million ransom demanded

Cybercriminals are no longer just hackers—they are rapidly becoming large-scale data brokers, weaponizing and monetizing stolen personal information at every stage of their operations, according to Europol’s 2025 Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment occrp.org/en/news/cyberc…

Paraguayan newspaper Última Hora, one of the most important in the country, dedicates the front page of today's edition to the risk of the personal data of the whole country being exposed. A ransomware group claims to have stolen sensitive information and is demanding $7.4

Only one man had access to Telegram’s server room in a downtown Miami data center: Vladimir Vedeneev, a little-known engineer who founded a Russian telecoms giant. His companies’ other clients include the FSB. Learn more about IStories Media findings occrp.org/en/investigati…

Selling “miracle water,” using a fake UN agency to bribe politicians to create a futuristic city-state in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Cary Yan’s story was already strange. But it gets weirder: it turns out that U.S. authorities prosecuted Yan under the name of his own

American court files show Cary Yan was charged under his English-language name, “Cary.” However, he was also listed in the indictment as using the name Yan Hong Hui. Yan Hong Hui is actually the name of Cary Yan’s brother. Cary Yan’s real name is Yan Hong Yue. Learn more

NEW + WEIRD one from @occrp The U.S. government charged and imprisoned a Chinese scam artist who who tried to create a Pacific city-state next to a U.S. ballistic missile range... but mixed his name up with his twin (who was already in prison in China) occrp.org/en/news/us-imp…

A Maltese court sentenced Robert Agius to life in prison last week for supplying explosives used to kill investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. But despite being under court-ordered asset freezes since 2013, companies owned by Agius or his wife managed to move millions

Paraguay has launched a cybersecurity strategy the week after a criminal hacking group released citizenship data, because the government refused to pay a ransom occrp.org/en/news/paragu… The group published the records after it failed to receive $.74 million it had demanded by June