The US government announced Monday it had seized $3.4 billion in bitcoin from a real estate developer who stole the cryptocurrency from the dark web marketplace Silk Road a decade ago.
US Seizes $3.4 Billion in Bitcoin Stolen From Silk Road
Surveillance ‘Existential’ Danger of Tech: Signal Boss
The mysticism that has allowed tech firms to make billions of dollars from surveillance is finally clearing, the boss of encrypted messaging app Signal told AFP.
Calls for UK to Probe Reported Hacking of Liz Truss’s Phone
UK opposition politicians called for an investigation Saturday after a newspaper reported that suspected Kremlin agents had hacked ex-Prime Minister Liz Truss’s cell phone when she was foreign minister.
US Charges Ukrainian ‘Raccoon Infostealer’ With Cybercrimes
A Ukrainian man has been charged with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with malware in a cybercrime operation known as “Raccoon Infostealer,” the US Justice Department said Tuesday.
US Healthcare Organizations Warned of ‘Daixin Team’ Ransomware Attacks
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued a joint alert on a new cybercrime group targeting organizations in the healthcare sector.
FBI Warns of Iranian Cyber Firm’s Hack-and-Leak Operations
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday issued an alert to warn that Iranian cyber group Emennet Pasargad is targeting organizations to steal their data and leak it online.
AI is Key to Tackling Money Mules and Disrupting Fraud: Industry Group
Money mules are an important part of the criminal money laundering pipeline. They help channel the proceeds from fraud and other criminal activities to the criminals themselves while obfuscating the process. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority has estimated that more than $40 billion is laundered every week, with only 1% intercepted and seized.
75 Arrested in Crackdown on West-African Cybercrime Gangs
Interpol last week announced the results of a joint law enforcement effort aimed at dismantling West-African cyber-enabled financial crime operations.
Biden Signs Executive Order on US-EU Personal Data Privacy
Executive order requires that US signals intelligence activities be conducted “only in pursuit of defined national security objectives”
US President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Friday designed to protect the privacy of personal data transfers between the EU and the United States and address European concerns about US intelligence collection activities.
Australian Police Make First Arrest in Optus Hack Probe
A police investigation of a cyberattack on an Australian telecommunications company in which the personal data of more than one third of Australia’s population was stolen has resulted in its first arrest, investigators said Thursday.
