The Justice Department said the operation began last year following “numerous” victim complaints to the FBI by U.S. victims who lost millions through cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes.
The platforms allegedly flouted the bloc’s Digital Services Act (DSA) by “failing to diligently identify, assess and mitigate the risks of minors under 13 years old accessing their services,” the commission said.
Swiss and German law enforcement have arrested 10 suspected members of the Nigerian criminal network Black Axe, including a regional leader believed to oversee operations in Southern Europe.
Police said on Monday the victims included both Ukrainian and foreign players whose accounts contained valuable digital items, rare equipment and in-game currency purchased with real money.
Privacy advocates had worried that the high court would rule that geofencing does not qualify as a constitutionally protected search, opening the door to much broader use of warrantless reverse searches of all types.
State officials said they observed overseas criminals carrying out government impersonation or tech support cons, as well as romance and pig butchering scams using cryptocurrency ATMs.
A California man was sentenced to more than five years in prison for his role in supporting a cybercriminal organization that stole about $260 million worth of cryptocurrency from victims.
A Chinese national accused of being a member of a state-backed hacking group that allegedly broke into systems to steal COVID-19 vaccine information has been extradited to the U.S. from Milan.
Officials and experts believe the most likely threat from Iranian hackers is not a digital shock-and-awe campaign, but something quieter: opportunistic intrusions, dressed up to look bigger than they are.
The home security company ADT said cybercriminals breached company systems on Monday and stole a “limited set” of customer and prospective customer information.
Autonomous weapons are becoming an "essential" part of modern war, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told an audience at Vanderbilt University’s Asness Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats.
Canadian police arrested three men over the use of a mobile “SMS blaster,” a device capable of impersonating a cellular tower to send mass phishing messages and disrupt mobile networks.
The Treasury Department said Cambodian senator Kok An was being sanctioned alongside 28 others involved in his scam center operation.
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