An international consortium of law enforcement agencies has disrupted Qakbot in the largest U.S.-led takedown of a botnet infrastructure. Between October 2021 and April 2023 Qakbot administrators received fees of approximately $58 million in ransomware payments. The investigation identified over 700,000 infected computers worldwide and netted the seizure of $8.6 ...
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Former vice president Mike Pence said the president pressured him to reject the certification of the election result. And he said the president's cabal of crackpot lawyers pressured him. They asked him to literally reject electoral votes at a ceremonial proceeding in Congress that would have thrown the U.S. House ...
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Three men burst into the garage and shot Shabir Niazi. It was a drug rip off. That's what Keenan Corner told the police at the scene. But at his trial for second degree murder he told an Oshawa jury he shot Mr. Niazi in the garage of his parents home ...
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The Supreme Court of Canada ordered a new trial yesterday for a Toronto man convicted by a jury of participation in the activities of a criminal organization. The charges stemmed from a police probe into illegal firearms trafficking in Ontario that included a wiretap component. In a 7-1 majority opinion ...
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During the final weeks of the Trump administration attorney John Eastman promoted false conspiracy theories and allegations of fraud to pressure Republican state legislatures to appoint alternate slates of presidential electors. Based on a contorted reading of constitutional history he attempted to influence White House advisors in a legal opinion ...
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has initiated two enforcement actions in two days against major platforms in the cryptocurrency market environment. The two civil cases are another push by the SEC to flex its muscle over crypto markets often described as the Wild West of investing. But the ...
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The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that a motion in a criminal proceeding may only be summarily dismissed if it is manifestly frivolous. In a unanimous opinion in the notorious Surrey Six murder case an eight member panel held that this new threshold will best preserve fair trials and ...
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Marginalized, overwhelmed and intellectually challenged. That is how three Canadian judges described a woman who accepted a powerful inducement held out by the state when she pleaded guilty ten years ago to causing the death of a child in her care by criminal negligence. It was a better bet than ...
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An international law enforcement operation involving seventeen countries has shut down a notorious online purveyor of stolen identities. The worldwide cyber investigation seized the infrastructure of Genesis Market in another blow to the cybercrime ecosystem. The dismantling of the user friendly site that offered access to data stolen from 1.5 ...
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Brazilian citizen Victor Muller Ferreira was ecstatic when he received his student visa. "Man, I got it," he said in an electronic message. "Now we are in the big-boys league." But Ferreira wasn't his real name and he wasn't from Brazil. He was Sergey Vladimirovich Cherkasov, a Russian spy originally ...
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