Europol has launched Project COMPASS, a coordinated transnational initiative aimed at disrupting “The Com,” a highly dangerous cybercrime and nihilistic extremist network that systematically targets minors and vulnerable young people across digital platforms. The Com operates as a sprawling transnational virtual network (TVN), utilizing social media, messaging apps, music platforms, and online games to recruit, […]

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Crypto criminals are increasingly weaponizing social media intelligence to identify and target high-value individuals in a surge of violent “wrench attacks,” marking a shift from purely digital exploitation to coordinated physical coercion campaigns. Recent threat intelligence indicates that attackers are systematically profiling cryptocurrency holders using publicly available data across platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, X, […]

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