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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

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based technology companies. Donahue said 60 technology companies are now routing all law enforcement data requests through Kodex, including an increasing number of financial institutions and cryptocurrency platforms. “That can include control over data, like an account freeze or preservation request.”

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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

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In 2023, prosecutors in Pakistan charged Mirza, Mansoor and 14 other Digitonics employees with fraud, impersonating government officials, phishing, cheating and extortion. ” Reached via LinkedIn, Mr. Mirza denied having anything to do with eWorldTrade or any of its sister companies in Texas. com and barnesnoblepublishing[.]co.

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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

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An analysis of their technology infrastructure shows that all of these exchanges use Russian email providers, and most are directly hosted in Russia or by Russia-backed ISPs with infrastructure in Europe (e.g. A machine-translated version of Flymoney, one of dozens of cryptocurrency exchanges apparently nested at Cryptomus.

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Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS

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SMS phishing kits are hardly new, but Merrill said Chinese smishing groups recently have introduced innovations in deliverability, by more seamlessly integrating their spam messages with Apple’s iMessage technology, and with RCS , the equivalent “rich text” messaging capability built into Android devices.

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U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams

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government today imposed economic sanctions on Funnull Technology Inc. , Image: Shutterstock, ArtHead. a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as pig butchering.”

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The Fake Browser Update Scam Gets a Makeover

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But when Cloudflare blocked those accounts the attackers began storing their malicious files as cryptocurrency transactions in the Binance Smart Chain (BSC), a technology designed to run decentralized apps and “smart contracts,” or coded agreements that execute actions automatically when certain conditions are met.

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Fake Investor John Bernard Sinks Norwegian Green Shipping Dreams

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Several articles here have delved into the history of John Bernard , the pseudonym used by a fake billionaire technology investor who tricked dozens of startups into giving him tens of millions of dollars.

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