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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Postal Service and the FBI is bringing digital fingerprinting services to more than 100 post offices, according to a Federal News Network report on Monday (Nov. In 2018, the Postal Service piloted the FBI partership program at two post offices in Washington, D.C. A two-year pilot program between the U.S.

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The Paypers

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released a public notice alerting that hackers are now gaining private user details from US-based tech firms by sending police data requests.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

In July of 2019, after the crimes had already allegedly been taking place for months, the FBI was able to infiltrate the circle and an agent used the same handle as a previous associate to talk with Ponle, using that to conduct a transaction and prove what was going on. But the two likely needed a U.S.-based

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a warning to banks that cybercriminals are gearing up to launch a choreographed global scam, known as the “ATM cashout,” in which the bad guys hack a bank or payment card processor to make cloned cards that they can use to withdraw money from ATMs around the globe.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

Recently announced statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) bear out this trend. The numbers come from the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report , which detailed that the use of social engineering, emails and other methods to get victims to wire money to fraudsters was a lucrative business. billion in 2018. In Ireland.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was deployed to Kenya to investigate the matter after accounts payable department professionals for Fairfax County, Virginia received an email claiming to be from Dell Computers, requesting that the county reroute pending payments to a different, Ohio-based account.

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Payments Source

MARCH 22, 2016

The tension between the desire of government agencies to gain more access with greater ease, and the public’s evolving perception of data privacy rights, is ongoing and writ large in the case of FBI vs. Apple, which brings the complexities regarding security technology such as encryption to light.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The FBI has once again sounded the alarm on the proliferation of digital fraud like ransomware and the business email compromise (BEC) scam, releasing new stats on the financial damage such criminal activity has caused in the U.S. in recent years. billion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The FBI program IDLE (Illicit Data Loss Exploitation) has companies plant decoy data as a way to confuse thieves looking to hack valuable information. Chu, acting assistant section chief for the FBI’s Cyber Engagement and Intelligence Section, told Ars. The fake data is mixed with real information to make it appear authentic.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The FBI is warning homebuyers to be on the lookout for internet criminals who are sneaking into online conversations between buyers and mortgage companies or other participants in the sale process and providing false instructions that dupe purchasers into wiring funds to the criminals’ accounts, CNBC reported Thursday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2018

FBI Director Christopher Wray had this to say about recent allegations that spy chips from China had been placed into servers owned by tech giants such as Apple and Amazon : “Be careful what you read.”. Apple never had any contact with the FBI or any other agency about such an incident. Especially in this context.”.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

service, which lets hackers advertise and sell stolen information, has been arrested by the FBI, according to published reports Tuesday (March 10). It is allegedly used for cybercrime, according to the FBI. The FBI said it had reviewed more than 250 stores on Deer.io regularly, the FBI said. According to U.S.

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Payments Source

MARCH 9, 2016

The fight between Apple and the FBI over the security protections on the San Bernardino, Calif., iPhone is about more than a single iPhone or Apple’s product line. This is a reality check for the entire tech industry, which has largely remained unchecked.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, said China wanted to steal U.S. As I stand here talking with you today, the FBI has about 1,000 investigations involving China’s attempted theft of U.S. based technology in all 56 of our field offices and spanning just about every industry sector,” Wray said. William Evanina, a senior U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The probe, led by the New York office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Manhattan U.S. The Wall Street Journal reported on the investigation, citing sources familiar with the process. We are cooperating with the SDNY investigation,” said an Uber spokesman, referring to New York’s Southern District.

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Payments Source

APRIL 9, 2019

Mastercard has joined forces with Microsoft, Workday and the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service to recruit younger prospects to work with the CIA, the FBI, the DoD and the EPA battling global cyberattacks.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

And in that top three, the FBI noted, BEC (sometimes called EAC, or email account compromise) was the absolute leader in generating losses, representing about $1.77 There were almost 24,000 complaints in 2019 and, according to the FBI, each successful attack costs roughly $75,000.

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VISTA InfoSec

JUNE 27, 2024

LAUSD officials have announced that it has informed the FBI, CISA, and its vendors to investigate the incident further. Once they accessed the accounts, the attackers downloaded all the data and attempted to extort the companies, threatening to sell or leak the data if their demands were unmet.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

To that end, the the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), a hub to bring complaints to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is eyeing payroll fraud. Payment fraudsters are looking to get between consumers and their paychecks.

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Payments Dive

MARCH 8, 2016

Tim Spenny, from GfK Research, wrote about how the security of mobile phones is relevant to the mobile payments industry.

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Payments Dive

MARCH 25, 2024

SEC enforcement actions against cryptocurrency players were up last year, but the commission is under attack for not issuing new rules for the industry.

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2017

In a warning to businesses covered by Reuters , the FBI said bad guys used email and pretended to be from real businesses to try and steal $5.3 In a previous report, the FBI had said thieves tried to steal $3.1 The FBI did not say how much money the bad guys were able to steal. Reuters also noted that the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

The FBI said people of all ages are potential victims for scammers and fraudsters, who are now using cryptocurrency channels as a replacement for the traditional money scams of old. That could include blackmail schemes in which scammers say they’ll infect friends and family members if a certain payment is not made.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2017

FBI documents have revealed a global financial network run by a senior Islamic State official that funneled money to an alleged ISIS operative in the U.S. He received a total of $8,700, which he used for a laptop, a mobile phone and a VPN communications network, all of which the FBI says he used to communicate with the Islamic State network.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2020

In today’s top news, the FBI warns users to beware of cyberattacks, and DoorDash is expected to receive new funding that will value the company at $15 billion. FBI Issues Warning To Bank Mobile App Users. Plus, Quicken Loans may be preparing an IPO.

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Axway

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are warning the healthcare community about an increased and imminent cyber crime threat to U.S. hospitals and healthcare providers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

According to a report in Forbes , 28-year-old Grant Michalski was ordered by an FBI agent to use Face ID to unlock his phone, which he complied with, during a child abuse case in Columbus, Ohio. When FBI agents searched his home they also ordered him to unlock the phone.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Google, the FBI and White Ops, along with a handful of cybersecurity companies, recently collaborated to shut down a digital ad fraud scam that used 1.7 million computers to generate fake clicks.

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Payments Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

I am glad the Department of Justice picked a fight with Apple. Let me explain why.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

So now, the investigation deepens and broadens, with payroll fraud under the microscope.

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Innovative Payments Association

OCTOBER 3, 2023

​Mentions of Chicago and the FBI might conjure images of men in fedoras with Tommy Guns, but modern crime is much more electronic than it used to be. With that in mind, the IPA recently held a session with the Chicago Field Office of the FBI where agents spoke about the trends in crime and payments.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2019

Stacy Arruda, a former special agent with the FBI and now executive director of the state of Florida ISAO on cybersecurity, said that part of the problem is that when it comes to protecting credit unions — and really any financial institution — danger lurks in what they don’t know.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

know the FBI does not agree and thinks U.S. The FBI said in a bulletin that it is “monitoring emerging reports indicating that well-resourced and organized malicious cyber actors have intentions to target the U.S. The FBI report pointed at software used by a Russian gang known as Buhtrap. financial sector.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The FBI is looking to take down “booter” services, which are hired to take websites offline, and also curb demand with the threat of jail time. 13) that the FBI is working with other global law enforcement agencies to crackdown on the number of people that use services to launch cyberattacks on their behalf.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2016

It looks like the LinkedIn hack — which resulted in over 117 million user passwords going out for sale on the internet — seems to have caught a break, as an alleged Russian hacker has been arrested in the Czech Republic following an FBI-coordinated tip-off. FBI officials have confirmed the arrest but have yet to provide details.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

The FBI is looking to speak with anyone who invested in the proprietary token offered by BitConnect. In other news, Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly has approved an amendment to the Securities and Exchange Act that will legalize the issuance of tokenized securities, according to CoinDesk.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In its most recent warning, the FBI said cyberattacks were becoming “more targeted, sophisticated, and costly.”. What we find most concerning is that it causes not just direct costs, but also indirect costs of lost operations,” said Herbert Stapleton, FBI cyber section chief. “We

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