About Us

Our mission

We exist to bring visibility to the good work done by governments, cyber police, and civil servants across the world — work that conventional media often overlooks. Policy can only be improved when feedback from the ground is heard, and citizens can only protect themselves when threats are explained in plain language.

Our coverage helps researchers understand abuse trends, helps publishers and law-enforcement teams share advisories with a wider audience, and helps citizens recognise the scams targeting them.

What we cover

• Cybercrime cases, fraud trends, and citizen-reported scams
• Cyber-police investigations, takedowns, and enforcement actions
• Public policy, regulations, and government guidelines impacting the cyber space
• Cybersecurity advisories, vulnerabilities, and incident response
• Artificial intelligence as it relates to safety, abuse, and digital identity
• Digitalisation and the user-experience of government services online

Free investigation tools

Alongside our reporting, we run a growing set of free tools for global law enforcement agencies and scam researchers. They work only from public information and are free to use, with no sign-up needed for the core checks.

• Crypto Investigation: check wallet addresses, USDT balances and transactions, and sanctions-list matches, and follow where scam money went.
• Website Check: see whether an address copies a well-known brand and what public records show about it, without opening the site.
• Law Enforcement Resources: how to send data requests to platforms and services, by company and by country.

Why “Ministry of Cyber Affairs”

The name is intentional, not literal. In Latin, “ministry” simply means service — from ministerium, and related to the Greek diakoneo, “to serve.” Our framing is that the cyber space deserves a service-first institution, even an unofficial one. We are not a government body, and we do not represent any government — we supplementgovernment cyber service through independent reporting.

How we work

Articles are written either by our editorial desk or by verified publishers who have applied through the platform. Every publisher account is reviewed before they are allowed to post, and every published article is attributed with a byline.

Where an article reports on a third-party event (a crime, an enforcement action, a vulnerability disclosure), we cite the primary source — the police press release, the official advisory, the vendor disclosure, or the original news outlet — directly within the article.

The full set of rules contributors follow is published on our editorial standards page. Want to contribute? Apply through our publisher onboarding page.

Our editorial model

Ministry of Cyber Affairs operates as an editorial collective. Articles are published under desk-level bylines (for example, “Sentry Desk,” “Cyber Desk”), not individual personal names. Both our writers and the operating team are pseudonymous by design.

This is a deliberate choice, not an attempt to hide. Cyber reporting frequently involves topics where naming individual contributors creates real risk — retaliation from fraud operators, doxxing of researchers, or jeopardising the safety of sources who may themselves be victims of cybercrime. We would rather be transparent about that constraint than manufacture identities we cannot defend.

Because we do not anchor credibility in named bylines, we anchor it in process and sourcing instead:

• Verified publishers. Anyone publishing on the platform applies through our onboarding process and is reviewed before they can post.
• Primary sources cited inline. Every article that reports on a third-party event links to the original police release, vendor advisory, official report, or news outlet so readers can verify independently.
• A real contact channel. The publication itself is reachable through our contact page for tips, corrections, takedown requests, and press enquiries.
• Corrections are disclosed. When we update an article materially, the change is noted within the article rather than silently overwritten.

If anonymity is a dealbreaker for how you consume news, we respect that — outlets like Krebs on Security, Bleeping Computer, and your country's national CERT publish under named bylines and serve overlapping coverage. Our role is complementary, not a replacement.

Independence and funding

Ministry of Cyber Affairs is an independent project. We are not affiliated with, owned by, or funded by any government, political party, or corporate sponsor. Coverage decisions are made entirely by the editorial team.

The site is funded by the operating team, with a small contribution from display advertising served by Google AdSense. We do not accept sponsored articles, paid placement, sponsorship, donations, or government grants, and advertisers have no say in what we publish or how we rate a company, product, or website. Advertising revenue does not cover our costs, and editorial decisions are never influenced by external revenue.

Corrections and contact

We aim to publish accurately. If you spot an error in any article — a factual mistake, a misattribution, a wrong link — please tell us. Our full corrections policy explains what we change, how we disclose it, and how takedown requests are handled.

Reach the editorial team through our contact page.