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Individuals who use digital assets to launder money in Taiwan face prison sentences ranging from six months to five years. This follows from the new anti-fraud laws. The package includes: Law on Fraud Prevention and Control. Law on Prevention and Combating Money Laundering. Law on...

How holidays and trustfulness of citizens affect the activity of scammers. Despite an extensive information campaign and warnings, fraudulent schemes that mimic the services of the postal service continue to operate successfully. Akamai found a significant increase in the activity of such...

Turkish police have arrested Utka Erdem, deputy head of the DenizBank branch in Antalya's Manavgat district, and seven other employees of the bank on suspicion of embezzling customer funds and making illegal cryptocurrency transactions. As a result of an inspection conducted at DenizBank, it...

The court recovered 154 thousand rubles from a resident of Kemerovo, who provided fraudsters with their data for registration of a fictitious account, the press service of the Prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region reported. The prosecutor's office conducted a check on the appeal of a...

Victims lose control of their savings, unaware of the hack until the last moment. Cybersecurity experts have discovered a complex multi-stage attack that uses phishing messages with invoice themes to spread a variety of malicious software, including Venom RAT, Remcos RAT, XWorm, NanoCore RAT...

Agent Tesla spyware ranked first among cyber threats in Russia in 2023. BI.ZONE published an annual study of cyber threats and hacker groups operating in Russia. The Threat Zone 2024 report is based on an analysis of data collected by experts from incident response, monitoring, and cyber...

Now it is established about the losses caused to citizens in the amount of almost 119 thousand UAH. Investigators informed the defendants about the suspicion. They face up to 8 years in prison. The illegal activity was stopped by employees of the Department of Countering Cybercrime in the...

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged Canadian Klaus Pflugbijl, 58, and Chinese Yilong Shao, 47, with conspiring to pass on trade secrets to Tesla. Pflugbijl was arrested Tuesday morning on Long Island. The man was sure that he was going to a meeting with buyers to discuss the deal, but...

The security services, together with the National Police, the Prosecutor's Office and law enforcement agencies of the Republic of Latvia, have eliminated an international scheme for luring funds from investors of electronic exchanges. As a result of a special operation in Zaporozhye, Kharkiv...

50-year-old Sergey so wanted new sensations and passions that he forgot to turn on his brain. Sofia from Loveplanet was so sweet and innocent. On the first date, I agreed to go only to the movies, without any nonsense. But the girl clearly hinted that it would be better to rent a club hall for...

A new banking Trojan has joined the ranks of malware that terrorizes users in South America. FortiGuard Labs discovered a new threat to the financial sector in South America. A new malware called CHAVECLOAK aims to steal bank credentials from Brazilian residents. The Trojan is distributed via...

How to feed yourself if you don't have an audience, but you do have a keyboard. A recent study by BleepingComputer uncovered a campaign to manage a network of more than 60 sites that mimic the largest media resources, such as the BBC, CNBC, CNN, etc. The main activity of the campaign is to...

The company's "pay or accept" policy has sparked numerous disputes with human rights activists. In the European Union, a legal battle is raging against the Meta corporation. Consumer protection groups are filing class-action lawsuits seeking to use the Data Protection Act to stop a practice in...

Investigators and employees of the criminal investigation Department of the Stavropol Territory and Volgograd Region police, in cooperation with the regional Federal Security Service of Russia, stopped the illegal activities of members of an organized group suspected of embezzling funds from...

Employees of the Criminal investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Nizhny Novgorod region detained a suspect in fraud under the pretext of collecting money for the restoration of the Orthodox Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the village...

A resident of the US state of Cincinnati pleaded guilty to identity theft and buying 37 military weapons with their help, which he purchased and paid for online. Another 19 applications were unsuccessful. The investigation found out that in June and July 2022, Zephaniah Jones (Zephaniah Jones)...

The Georgian Prosecutor's Office announced the arrest of seven people: apparently, they were members of a criminal group that operated international fraudulent call centers and laundered large sums obtained by criminal means. According to the investigation, the organized crime group established...

Another case of fraud occurred in Buryatia ― a resident of the Kabansky district tried to make money on cryptocurrencies, but trusted the scammers and lost about 1.8 million rubles. A 45-year-old man responded to an offer to earn money on cryptocurrencies. At the same time, he was well aware of...

It seems that the moral principles of the group have undergone a major change... Contrary to its policy of not attacking non-profit organizations, the hacker group LockBit recently claimed responsibility for an attack on a children's hospital in Chicago. In December 2022, when LockBit...

Only in international terminology are they called “money mules”. And our drop drivers are called “mule recruiters.” Recently, a large-scale operation aimed at suppressing the activities of money mules was completed in Europe. The campaign lasted 6 months with the participation of 26 countries...