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Jun 25, 2026 35 min

Inside Operation Disruption Week: Taking Down Southeast Asia's Scam Machine

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What does it actually take to dismantle an industrial-scale scam operation running bulletproof hosting, distributed ASNs, and crypto laundering across multiple countries? Mike Sweeney of Silent Push was in the room during Operation Disruption Week and tells us exactly how it went down — the intelligence, the coordination, and why this public-private model could be a blueprint for future cyber disruption efforts. Plus, reporter Tim Starks on the open source supply chain crisis: the volunteer maintainers holding up the internet, the threat groups coming after them, and the policy vacuum left behind after the Biden administration's momentum stalled.

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