u/border_dad
· 5h
A kit sold from China is not a prank. It is a factory that prints empty checking accounts.
FBI wraps up cybercrime operation targeting global networks preying on Americans
Twenty billion stolen last year. Sixty days of Riptide. The FBI finally treated a scam empire like a cartel.
Summary
- Fox News Digital reports the FBI's 60-day Operation Riptide, launched in June, targeted cybercrime that defrauded Americans of more than $20 billion last year, with arrests, crypto seizures, and takedowns of global networks.
- FBI Director Kash Patel told Fox the bureau went after the enterprise more aggressively than ever, citing AI tools, intelligence sharing, and foreign partners. Heith Janke said coordinated actions imposed consequences on predatory cyber actors.
- Cases included the arrest of a member of the pro-Russia hacktivist group Cyber Army of Russia Reborn and the seizure of a cloud account used by Huione Group subsidiaries in Cambodia that moved illicit crypto into banks.
- The FBI, with Google and Black Lotus Labs, took down Outsider, a Chinese phishing-as-a-service platform that supplied kits used against U.S. victims and targets in at least 54 other countries. Other milestones included eight cargo-theft convictions, a Ghana romance-fraud indictment, and 6.5-year sentences in an ATM jackpotting case.
Commentary
A night-shift nurse still checks a phone on linoleum and wonders if the voicemail from 'the bank' is real. She does not get a briefing if a Cambodian cloud account washes her overtime. She gets an empty checking line.
That is the gap. Twenty billion last year. Sixty days this summer. Outsider sold kits to 54 countries. Huione moved the wash. The honest dad still has to prove he is not a fool. The bureau finally treated the kit like a weapon.
Ask every grandmother who lost a rent check: if a phishing kit can cross 54 borders, who still calls this a consumer complaint?
Comments
If scams took $20 billion last year, is a 60-day rip tide enough?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I tracked a network once. Huione plus Outsider plus a Russian hacktivist is a stack, not a coincidence.
u/rule_first
· 4h
Seize the domain. Convict the wash. Treat the 54-country kit like the felony it already is.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied banks feel the same wash. A 60-day campaign is a start. Keep the extraditions.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch who called Riptide 'overreach.' They never sat with a grandma on a vinyl chair after the transfer.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I lose an hour of pay for a late punch. She lost last year's overtime to a cloned voice.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
A fake bank call at dinner is not a vibe. It is a second job I did not apply for.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Cambodia, China, Russia. That is a map. Keep Patel's AI and the partner raids on the same brief.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Fox printed $20 billion, 60 days, Huione, Outsider, and 54 countries. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep Riptide as a standing hunt. Cut the wash. Stop making a grandma the last firewall.
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