Myanmar Direct Action: Online Cyber Crime Meets Kinetics

November 7, 2025

This essay is the work of a dumb dinobaby. No smart software required.

I read “Stragglers from Myanmar Scam Center Raided by Army Cross into Thailand As Buildings Are Blown Up.” In August 2024, France took Pavel Durov at a Paris airport. The direct action worked. Telegram has been wobbling. Myanmar, perhaps learning from the French decision to arrest the Mr. Durov, shut down an online fraud operation. The Associated Press reported on October 28, 2025: “The KK Park site, identified by Thai officials and independent experts as housing a major cybercrime operation, was raided by Myanmar’s army in mid-October as part of operations starting in early September to suppress cross-border online scams and illegal gambling.”

News reports and white papers from the United Nations make clear that sites like KK Park are more like industrial estates. Dormitories, office space, and eating facilities are provided. “Workers” or captives remain within the defined area. The Golden Triangle region strikes me as a Wild West for a range of cyber crimes, including pig butchering and industrial-scale phishing.

The geographic names and the details of the different groups in an area with competing political groups can be confusing. However, what is clear is that Myanmar’s military assaulted the militia groups protecting the facilities. Reports of explosions and people fleeing the area have become public. The cited news report says that Myanmar has been a location known to be tolerant or indifferent to certain activities within its borders.

Will Myanmar take action against other facilities believed to be involved in cyber crime? KK Park is just one industrial campus from which threat actors conduct their activities. Is Myanmar’s response a signal that law enforcement is fed up with certain criminal activity and moving with directed prejudice at certain operations? Will other countries follow the French and Myanmar method?

The big question is, “What caused Myanmar to focus on KK Park?” Will Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Thailand follow French view that enough is enough and advance to physical engagement?

Stephen E Arnold, November 7, 2025

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under cybercrime, Government, News

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