Sources: the FBI deemed a recent China-linked hack of a US surveillance system a “major incident”, meaning it poses significant risks to US national security
Meta says it worked with global law enforcement agencies to disrupt criminal scam centers in Southeast Asia and disabled 150K+ accounts tied to scam centers
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A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on “zero-knowledge proofs”
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
The FBI and agencies in the UK, Canada, and others warn that a Chinese hacking campaign targeting US telecoms has expanded to 80 countries and 200+ US companies
The advisory shows global resolve against a hacking campaign that exceeds accepted norms for snooping.
The US Secret Service, Europol, and others take down and seize Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with ransomware hackers
But declined to provide more details. — techcrunch.com/2025/03/06/r... Mastodon: Zack Whittaker / @zackwhittaker@mastodon.social : NEW: Russian crypto exchange Garantex has been seized by the U.S. S...
Donald Trump picks Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which has been a custodian for stablecoin company Tether since 2021, to serve as Commerce Secretary
a sign of crypto's new political clout Dan Alexander / Forbes : ‘The Most Hated Guy On Wall Street’: The Unspoken Story Around Howard Lutnick, Trump's Pick For Commerce Secretary Wall Street Journal :...
Sources: the FBI is investigating whether China-backed Hone Capital, a US VC firm that invested in 360 US tech startups, allowed Beijing to obtain trade secrets
Hone Capital became the most prolific early investor in US tech start-ups — The FBI is investigating whether a US venture capital fund …
An investigation details how scammers are using crypto ATMs to commit fraud; the FBI says US losses from scams carried out via crypto ATMs was $120M+ in 2023
Whether TikTok is banned or not, this is the end as we know it for the money-losing app, which may lose focus due to advertiser, creator, and staff uncertainty
Here's How Long ByteDance Has to Sell, and Why TikTok Is Preparing for a Legal Battle Vassia Barba / The Mirror : FBI chief issues TikTok warning as he says China is trying to ‘steal AI and hack US te...
Sources: after more than six months, the FBI has resumed limited outreach to some US tech companies about foreign propagandists using their platforms
NBC News : X: @ericgeller and @kevincollier X: Eric Geller / @ericgeller : “Employees at two companies that had previously received the briefings said the agency had resumed limited outreach but that...