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The Silicon Syndicate: Deepfakes, Dark Algorithms, and the New Architecture of European Crime

by Marcus Volker
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798250096577
  • Binding: Paperback
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  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 260
  • Original Price: GBP 15.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 354 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Criminology

The call lasted eighteen minutes. The money was gone in four hours. The CFO on the screen was a voice clone built with generative AI. The colleagues were deepfakes. The accountant did everything correctly.

On a quiet Thursday morning in Amsterdam, a mid-level accountant at a Dutch logistics firm authorised a wire transfer of 2.3 million. By midday, the funds had transited three accounts across two jurisdictions and disappeared into a cryptocurrency mixing service. The voice clone cost $200. The deepfakes took forty minutes to generate. This is not the future. By 2026, it is the modal outcome.

Organised crime in Europe has not been replaced by digital crime. It has been amplified by generative AI.

The same post-Soviet networks that built the money laundering infrastructure of the 1990s have now adopted artificial intelligence as their new operational layer. In The Silicon Syndicate, investigative analyst Marcus Volker documents the convergent ecosystem where Russian state-sponsored hackers, Eastern European organised crime networks, Southeast Asian fraud compounds, and North Korean IT operatives meet - sharing infrastructure, financial channels, and a common dependence on the regulatory gaps that European institutions have not yet closed.

Drawing on Europol's EU-SOCTA 2025, ENISA threat assessments, DOJ indictments, and blockchain forensic analyses, this book traces:

  • How the Lazarus Group stole $1.5 billion in a single cyberattack - and laundered it within weeks
  • How deepfake technology and AI voice cloning have industrialised CEO fraud across European corporations
  • Why 98% of criminal proceeds in the EU are successfully laundered despite decades of AML regulation
  • How ransomware-as-a-service networks operate with state tolerance from Russian territory
  • Why the most effective AI fraud detection tools cannot survive European court scrutiny


The Silicon Syndicate is rigorous, documented, and disturbing - the definitive account of how cybercrime, AI, and organised crime have converged into Europe's most dangerous criminal ecosystem.

For readers of Misha Glenny's McMafia, Jake Bernstein's Secrecy World, and Andy Greenberg's Sandworm.

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