Crypto Kidnappings: Why Your Digital Wealth Isn’t as Safe as You Think
As cryptocurrency increasingly becomes more mainstream, a new trend has emerged: violent kidnappings and attacks targeting people just for their crypto holdings. Over the last 18 months there have been 231 documented physical incidents — abductions, home invasions, and other coercive attacks — aimed at individuals known or believed to hold significant.
Transnational Instability & Nontraditional Threats: The New Frontline of Global Security
In the current geopolitical climate, the most pressing security challenges are no longer confined to battlefields or the agendas of global powers. Instead, increasing global instability stems from a complex mix of climate change, resource scarcity, and mass migration.
Shop ‘Til You Drop… the Crime Rate: Tackling Retail Theft
Over the past five years, everyone has noticed the increase in locked items at local and chain pharmacies. The enhanced security measures coincide with a surge in retail crime, such as shoplifting.
Vigilantism: The Rise of Targeted Assassinations
While the situation remains fluid and details continue to emerge, the suspect charged with shooting the UnitedHealthcare executive and father of two in the back was arrested with a handwritten anti-capitalist and anti-corporate manifesto.
RMS International’s Global Risk Forecast 2025
This year, 2025, will be full of impactful disruptors, or an individual, company, or form of technology that uses radical change in an existing industry, market, supply chains, or political landscape by means of innovation.
‘Tis the Season: The 2024 Holiday Season Threat Forecast
There are several security risks that may use the disarming seasonal decorations and festive spirit of the holiday season as cover for nefarious activity.