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  Treasury Launches Cybersecurity Information Sharing Initiative for the Digital Asset Industry

  US Department of the Treasury

  April 9, 2026

  WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection (OCCIP) announced a new initiative to strengthen cybersecurity across the digital asset industry. The initiative will provide timely, actionable cybersecurity information to eligible U.S. digital asset firms and industry organizations, helping them better identify, prevent, and respond to cyber threats targeting their customers and networks. The effort advances a key recommendation from the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets report, Strengthening American Leadership in Digital Financial Technology.

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  From Vietnam to the EU by air: 8 arrested in a migrant smuggling sting across Europe

  Europol

  April 9, 2026

  On 30 March 2026, a coordinated international French-led operation, which was supported by Europol and involved law enforcement and judicial authorities from Germany and Hungary, led to the dismantling of a Vietnamese migrant smuggling network. The criminal organisation operated across several European countries, with the United Kingdom as the final destination of the migrants. Such migrant smuggling networks link facilitators in countries of origin, transit hubs, and destination countries, while generating significant illicit profits.

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  Kazakhstan: New Reports on Party Funding Transparency and Criminal Law Convention on Corruption Incriminations

  GRECO

  April 9, 2026

  In two new Evaluation Reports published today, GRECO assesses the efforts of Kazakhstan to ensure incriminations for corruption and transparency of party funding, and formulates 17 recommendations for specific actions to be taken by the Kazakh authorities to address the shortcomings identified by GRECO. The reports also note a number of steps already taken.