The tax authority made three arrests in connection with a suspected tax evasion using shell companies and false identification.

The San Francisco 49ers have been hit by a ransomware attack, with cyber criminals claiming they stole some of the football team’s financial data.

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Russia shuts down four dark web sites that made more than $260 million in cryptocurrency sales as we can see further in today’s latest cryptocurrency news. Russia shuts down four dark websites, Ferum Shop, Sky-Fraud Forum, UAS Store, and Trump’s dump which made more than $260 million in crypto sales. The Russian Ministry of Internal […]

Ferum Shop, Trump's Dumps, Sky-Fraud forum, and UAS Store are the four illicit platforms shut down by the authorities.

Charted territory.

Watching the credits roll on Uncharted feels like closure in a lot of ways. We’ve been writing about this movie since the site’s inception in 2009, which ironically is roughly the same year a pre-pubescent Tom Holland was photographed prancing around in a Spider-Man costume, praying that he’d one day get the opportunity to portray Peter Parker on the big screen. Having set the Box Office ablaze late last year with Spider-Man: No Way Home, Sony Pictures’ go-to guy has been roped back in for PlayStation Productions’ debut project. But while this glossy green screen spectacle packs plenty of action into its sub-two hour running time, we’re not entirely sure who it’s for.

With its 2007 PlayStation 3 exclusive Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and subsequent successors, developer Naughty Dog’s primary ambition was to create a summer blockbuster you could control. But by taking the DualShock away, this globe-trotting origin story treads a very familiar path to the likes of Indiana Jones and National Treasure. It all ends up feeling a little too familiar, and while Holland strikes a fine balance as the film’s protagonist – the narcissistic-heart-of-gold-petty-thief named Nathan Drake – the rest of the cast fail to fill their roles with anywhere near as much conviction.

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Listen to the most important stories in Bitcoin and crypto covered by our newsroom in the past week. Nike sues over sneaker NFTs to clean house before metaverse arrives Sneaker resale platform StockX is being sued by Nike over a series of NFTs the sportswear giant says could harm its reputation. Read more It sure […]

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Cybercriminals are receiving a high percentage of their payments in Bitcoin and Monero, according to a Chainalysis report.  The Crypto Crime Report examines the prevalence of illegal activities in the crypto space last year.

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The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Thursday that Americans reported record high losses of more than $547 million to romance scams in 2021. This is up 80% compared to 2020 and over 6 times compared to reported losses in 2017. Financial losses originating from romance scams have increased significantly over recent years, with a […]

Read Time: 7 minutes Binance is the largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange, overseeing over a billion dollars worth of trades. Binance rose to popularity because of its security, as the platform demands every user to complete the verification process. This allows the team to effectively monitor transactions and apprehend criminals.  Address verification is one of the levels of validation on …

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Passwords are as frustrating as they are essential, especially in financial services. We chatted with LastPass VP of Product Management Dan DeMichele to get an idea of how banks and fintechs can protect themselves, what the future of passwords looks like, and how digital identity is dictating changes. In his role at LastPass, a password Read more...

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Password-guessing became last year's weapon of choice, as attackers attempted to brute-force vulnerable Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers, SQL databases, and SMB file shares.