Since the Donald Trump administration continues its renewal re -organization from the US federal government, the Wired documents this week show that the Ministry of Defense is seeking to cut its three -quarters of its workforce, specifically focusing on stopping the expansion of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, the US military uses its “Camogpt” artificial intelligence tools to “examine” the diversity, justice, inclusion and access to the Trump administration’s order. The military initially developed AI services to improve productivity and operational readiness.
US Civil Liberation Organizations press the National Intelligence Director. TulSi Gabbard, to eliminate details of section 702 of the Foreign Information Supervision Act – a central reference abroad that is defamed or sent by Americans for the capture of a large number of calls, texts and emails made by Americans. And the US Department of Justice on Wednesday accused 10 Hackers and two Chinese government officials of digital crimes for more than a decade as part of the hacking ecosystem for China’s recruitment.
Continuous analysis of the Consortium of Human Security Researchers showed that at least one million low -priced Android devices, such as TV and tablet broadcast boxes, were endangered as part of a fraud and advertising campaign known as Badbox 2.0. This activity, which researchers say comes out of China, is the evolution of previous efforts to support similar devices.
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Two people, who are said to be part of a group for access to nearly 1,000 concert tickets and other events – many were arrested for the Eras Taylor Swift Tour – arrested and arrested in Queens this week before selling more than $ 600,000. Tyrone Rose, 20 years old, and you were arrested and arrested by P. Simmons, 31, from Jamaica, Queens, in connection with stealing and selling.
Between June 2022 and July 2023, it is claimed that 350 orders-using 993 tickets-in a stubhub ticket platform were available in a third-party contractor named Suterland. The district prosecutor’s office wrote in a statement: “Sutherland’s employees, the Tyrone Rose and an indescribable accomplices, are said to have used their access to the Stubhub computer system to find a back in a safe area of the network, which is currently being given to the URL tickets to the URL.”
They then sent the URLs to another accomplice that died since then, before sending tickets to Stubhub for restraint. While investigations are underway, the district prosecutor’s office claimed that cybercrime revenue was about $ 635,000, as well as ED Sheeran concert tickets, NBA games and US tennis competitions.
Every year, criminals make billions of dollars of highly organized fraud in Southeast Asia. With the increase in this operation, there is a wider ecosystem that provides them with the technology and services needed to execute scams. And experts say there is no market larger than the Huione guarantee – a scam market in the Cambodian Gray Market, which researchers claim to have facilitate more than $ 24 billion.
This week, according to a report through Asia’s Free Asian Radio, Huione Guanne’s Banking Huione Group suspended its financial license by Cambodian authorities. According to the report, the Huione Pay service had retained its license for failing to comply with existing regulations. The Drug and Crime Bureau and the encryption tracking company had already been linked to cybercut by paying the carion. The elliptical founder Tom Robinson claimed to be Asian Free Radio. “
The US Department of Justice has announced an operation with Germany and Finland this week to disrupt digital infrastructure behind the infamous Russian Garantex cryptocurrency exchange. It has been said for years that the platform has been used for money laundering and other criminal transactions, including sanctions. The Ministry of Justice claimed in its statement that “transnational criminal organizations – including terrorist organizations” had used the exchange. Law enforcement said the platform has been processing at least $ 96 billion in encryption transactions since April 2019. US officials said they were more than $ 26 million used to facilitate money laundering as part of the frozen warranty collecting.
FBI warned this week that fraudsters pretend to be the Bianlian Ransomware striker demanding ransom from corporate executives in the United States. These demands include allegations that this network violates a company and threatens to disseminate sensitive information unless a goal is paid. Such criminal digital extortion is common enough that fraudsters seem to feel that they can make claims and intimidate targets even without attacking them. The FBI says the demands of the fraudsters say they come from Bianlian and from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 payable through the QR code, which is linked to a bitcoin wallet. According to November warning from the US Cyber Security and Infrastructure Agency, the real Bianlian group has been linked to Russia and has been targeting important US infrastructure since June 2022.
