Between Two Nerds: Releasing the hounds on scam compounds

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In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss the Southeast Asian criminal syndicates that run online scam compounds. Should organisations like US Cyber Command or the UK’s National Cyber Force target these gangs with disruption operations?

Show notes

• UN Office of Drugs and Crime on Southeast Asian transnational cyber scammers https://www.unodc.org/roseap/en/2025/04/cyberfraud-inflection-point-mekong/story.html

Thumbnail scam compound imagery from Google Earth.