Who Would Fall for a Romance Scam?
Do you have a sweetheart who sends you loving emails but you have never met in person? Does he say you make him feel like he's known you forever? But you can't arrange a date because he's in the military overseas. Did you send him money when his bank account ...
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The Evolving Ransomware Ecosystem
Ransomware operations are not only a technological problem. They have evolved into systematized extortion campaigns that weaponize stolen data. Although two recent cases in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland involved standard tactics from the ransomware playbook they also highlight the use of extortion strategies indicative ...
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The Epstein Files: A Gathering Momentum
The police in Britain arrested a member of the Royal Family and a former British ambassador to the United States on suspicion of misconduct in public office following the release of the Epstein files by the U.S. Department of Justice. The records disclose a global web of complicity from the ...
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Saudi Dissident Targeted With Pegasus Spyware Awarded £3m by U.K. Court
Saudi dissident, Ghanem Al-Masarir, has been awarded £3m in damages by Britain's High Court of Justice in a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia for hacking his cellphones with Pegasus spyware and directing his assault on a London street. The former satirist whose YouTube channels featured criticism of the Saudi government now ...
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Undisclosed Police Records Went to the Core of the Defence – Alberta Judge
Proactive policing includes the practice of heightening police presence to reduce crime. But a recent ruling from the Alberta Court of King's Bench on a disclosure motion may indicate that other important outcomes are unclear. Is it good law enforcement policy to get guns off the streets if police initiatives ...
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C.E.O. of Construction Company Indicted for Fraud
The crackdown on corporate fraud has continued with the recent indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, charging Anthony Tepedino, C.E.O. of Allstate Sales Group, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. The indictment is another case in the global shift from ...
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Former D.E.A. Agent Charged in Money Laundering Conspiracy
A former Special Agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has been indicted for conspiracy to commit money laundering. Paul Campo, who rose to become a senior figure in the agency's financial operations office, is charged with agreeing to launder millions in drug proceeds for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel ...
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State Action and the Private Search Doctrine
Is it a violation of the right to be secure against unreasonable search or seizure when a citizen hands over evidence of a crime to the police and the police examine it without getting a search warrant? That question has been considered by two provincial courts of appeal in Canada ...
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NSO Group Seeks Stay of Permanent Injunction
Spyware vendor NSO Group has appealed the ruling of a United States federal judge that it must cease targeting WhatsApp users with zero click Pegasus spyware claiming it will sustain potentially existential injuries if a permanent injunction is not stayed. The manufacturer of the sophisticated surveillance tool said in a ...
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Cyber Brokers Are the Next International Arms Dealers
An Australian cybersecurity executive living in the United States has pleaded guilty to selling trade secrets to a Russian cyber broker. The nature of the trade secret software has not been made public but prosecutors said it was intended to be sold exclusively to the U.S. government and trusted allies ...
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