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Shadow Banker Interviews Prolific Dark Web ‘Data Thug’ Sentap

Recently, Shadow Banker had the privilege of interviewing Sentap, one of the littest illicit data and access brokers operating on the Dark Web today. The only security vendors that have previously given Sentap any ink are ZeroFox and Underdark.AI (in a LinkedIn post). Per a May 2025 ZeroFox intelligence briefing, “Sentap’s recent online activity indicate that the actor has been involved in an array of malicious cyber activities that include…

Clout-Chasing, Serbian Narco-IT Moron Holds Key to Performative Europol Shade in ICIJ Story

30 Members of the Belivuk Clan in Serbia were arrested last February after their Sky ECC communications were crackedThey have been charged with 5 murders, but are suspected of as many as 20Serbian authories seized 44 Sky ECC phones from the gangThe gang’s messages were hacked at least 4 months prior to the timeline reported by Europol for when Sky was hackedSrdjan Lalic, the gang’s ‘IT wiz was in charge…

Sinaloan Chemists Teach Dutch Narcos Eco-Friendly Ice Recipe, Challenge Vietnamese OCGs in Eastern Europe for Global Market Share

A more EncroChat-focused version of this story first appeared on OODALoop.com Sinaloa cartel-linked freelance chemists have brought their eco-friendly meth recipe to the Netherlands, Dutch investigators say, as Low Countries producers challenge Vietnamese narcos in the Czech Republic for global market share. A record number of meth labs – 18 so far – have been seized in the Netherlands this year, according to a recent report published by OODA Loop.…

Two Multinational Banks Ensnared in Panama Papers-Style Leak of FinCEN Data, as U.S. Election Draws Near

In several Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence scoops last week, Aussie reporter Nathan Lynch revealed that the U.S. Treasury’s financial intelligence unit is bracing itself for the publication of a “Panama Papers-style” leak of sensitive data by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its media partners. The TRRI story says that the ICIJ’s “consortium members are preparing to publish simultaneously on a pre-determined date. The participating media outlets have…

Shadow Banker EXCLUSIVE: Leaked DEA, HSI, and FBI Report Exposes ‘New Fusion’ of Mexican Cartels Contracting Chinese Money Laundering Organizations in Chicago

A leaked intelligence report jointly authored by the Chicago branches of three separate federal law enforcement agencies documents a ‘new fusion’ between Mexican cartels and Chinese money-laundering organizations. This April 2020 report was among the BlueLeaks dump of unclassified, but sensitive, law enforcement data that was posted online in June by transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets. Chicago branches of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and…