Topic: victim impact
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Meta Must Stop Scammers or Face the Fallout
Meta knowingly profits from fraudulent advertisements, generating an estimated $7 billion annually from scam ads despite internal awareness of the issue, with inadequate enforcement policies allowing deceptive content to persist. Scams facilitated by Meta's platforms cause immense financial harm ...
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Scammers Impersonate Police to Steal Private Data From Tech Giants
Hackers are impersonating law enforcement to fraudulently obtain private customer data from major tech companies like Apple and Amazon, exploiting weak corporate verification processes for emergency data requests. A criminal group operates a "doxing-as-a-service" model, boasting hundreds of succe...
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Operation Endgame 3.0 Takes Down Three Major Malware Networks
Operation Endgame 3.0 dismantled three major malware networks—Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium—through a coordinated international law enforcement effort across eleven countries. The operation disrupted over 1025 servers, seized 20 domains, and led to the arrest of the suspected VenomRAT opera...
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Feds Seize Record $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam
U.S. and UK authorities seized a record $15 billion in Bitcoin from the Prince Group, the largest cryptocurrency seizure ever, linked to global romance and investment scams known as "pig butchering." The criminal network, led by Chen Zhi, used fraudulent call centers in Cambodia staffed by human ...
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Five Men Admit Plot to Infiltrate US Firms for North Korea
Five individuals pleaded guilty for helping North Korean IT workers infiltrate over 100 U.S. companies by bypassing hiring checks and facilitating remote work under false identities, generating millions in fraudulent salaries. The schemes involved U.S. citizens and others providing their identiti...
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Google Cracks Down on Spam Text Rings
Google is suing the "Lighthouse" phishing operation, which provides tools for large-scale scams, including deceptive SMS messages and fake websites that mimic legitimate entities. The operation has created hundreds of thousands of fraudulent sites, potentially compromising millions of credit card...
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Oracle Hackers Target Executives with Extortion Emails
A sophisticated hacking campaign is targeting top-level executives at major corporations with extortion emails, claiming to have stolen sensitive data from Oracle's widely used business software products, though these claims remain unverified. The attackers, linked to the Clop ransomware gang, us...
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