Insight Monitor
Jessica Davis, PhD, Elena Martynova, Lisa Niemzyk, Emelia Connolly, Belle Riley ThompsonGlobal security, terrorism, espionage and illicit financing -- news and analysis you won't find anywhere else!
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Following the Money
Welcome back, Insight Monitor subscribers!
October flew by. Over the last month, Jessica has been preparing for the 2026 CASIS Annual Symposium - taking place this Friday, November 6, in Ottawa - in between travel to London for events wit...
North Korea emerges as a cyber-finance criminal superpower
Last week, Binance was hit with a record-breaking hack that exfiltrated $6.3 billion worth of assets from the exchange. As part of my work at the University of Calgary, funded through an SSHRC Insight Development Grant, I have analyzed sta...
You can buy a lot of missiles with $6.3 billion
Yesterday, Binance was hit with a record-breaking hack that exfiltrated $6.3 billion worth of assets from the exchange. The hack was attributed to the North Korean hacking group TraderTraiter by TRM Labs. Tether, Circle, Ripple, and World...
Understanding Illicit Political Finance to Counter State Threats
Hello, Insight Monitor subscribers!
Last week, I was at the Soufan Centre’s Global Security Forum. It was my fourth time attending the forum (and fifth visit to Doha), and it did not disappoint. There were incredible panels on all sorts o...
Reviewing FINTRAC’s Performance for 2025-2026
FINTRAC’s annual report released
Today, FINTRAC is releasing its annual report, an important document that offers insight into Canada’s financial intelligence unit and the state of illicit financing in Canada. You can read the full documen...
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Jessica Davis is President of Insight Threat Intelligence and is the author of Women in Modern Terrorism: From Liberations Wars to Global Terrorism and the Islamic State (2017), and Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the 21st Century (2021).
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