Chinese Organized Crime-Fueled Gambling Sites - Investigation and Network Analysis

This conference talk from Black Hat delves into how a DNS investigation uncovered a massive Chinese organized crime network behind online gambling operations. Learn how criminal enterprises shifted from physical casinos to online gambling and pig butchering scams during the pandemic, utilizing human trafficking and indentured servitude to fuel their operations. Discover how these groups cleverly sponsored European football teams to promote their brands, leading to UK Gambling Commission sanctions in 2023. The presenters, Maël Le Touz and Renée Burton from Infoblox, reveal how what appears to be numerous independent gambling companies is actually a single service provider operating on the same software and DNS network. Follow their investigative journey that connected technical discoveries with reports from journalists and watchdog organizations to expose the company at the center of this criminal enterprise, highlighting the intersection between online and physical criminal worlds where people serve as both victims and unwilling perpetrators.