The guilty verdicts returned by a jury against Sam Bankman-Fried confirmed that the one-time cryptocurrency wunderkind now stands as one of America's biggest fraudsters. His sentencing is scheduled for March 28, 2024. The statutory maximum sentences for his crimes total over 100 years in prison.
Every week, ISMG rounds up cybersecurity incidents in digital assets. This week, Sam Bankman-Fried testified in his U.S. criminal trial, the United Kingdom issued further crypto regulation, U.S. federal law enforcement arrested SafeMoon executives, and Onyx and Unibot each fell victim to a hack.
PSR shift in liability adds another dimension of complexity for financial institutions (FIs) combatting sophisticated APP fraud scams and new account fraud. Not only is it more challenging for FIs to protect themselves and customers, that liability shift could have deep revenue impact.
Why is NICE Actimize ranked the highest-scoring enterprise fraud management (EFM) vendor on Quadrant Knowledge Solution’s 2023 SPARK Matrix™? Because end-to-end fraud prevention across the entire customer life cycle doesn’t just achieve robust fraud detection and prevention—it improves operational efficiency...
Financial institutions (FIs) are increasing their efforts to combat the alarming rise in fraud cases. A prominent example is the U.K. PSR’s upcoming shift in liability to FIs, especially relating to Authorized Push Payment fraud. With the PSR’s new policy, both the sending and receiving FIs will be responsible for...
Until now there has been an ongoing struggle regarding who owns the money mules and scams problem – Credit Risk, AML (KYC), or Fraud Management? With liabilities shifting, ownership is clearly landing on the shoulders of Fraud Management teams. Fraud leaders must act quickly or risk losing revenue, their reputation,...
This week: Sam Bankman-Fried says he'll testify, FinCEN proposed recording crypto transactions involving mixers, a financial investigation firm used NFTs to track stolen funds, Atomic Wallet froze $2 million of $100 million in hacked funds and advocates challenged the US SEC's Binance lawsuit.
This week, Chainalysis busted crypto terrorist financing myths, the Sam Bankman-Fried trial continued, Stars Arena got back 90% of its stolen funds, an EU authority warned about DeFi risks, the U.S. FDIC said it would focus more on crypto, and California's governor approved crypto regulations.
Thousands of North Korean IT workers hid their identities to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in IT contract work from overseas companies to help finance the country's weapons development program, U.S. and South Korean agencies said. Officials said to watch for workers who are camera-shy.
In the latest weekly update, Ari Redbord, head of legal and government affairs at TRM Labs, joined ISMG editors to discuss: how Hamas is using crypto to finance operations, the latest illicit activities by North Korean actors, and how the trial of FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried could impact the industry.
This week: A crackdown on Hamas' cryptocurrency accounts, more revelations from the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, Voyager Capital settles with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission - while former CEO Stephen Ehrlich does not - and Elliptic says hackers have cumulatively laundered $7 billion to date.
This week, the FTX hacker moved more than $100 million of funds as the trial of the company's former CEO begins; crypto losses in the third quarter of this year were $685.5 million; and the DOJ said that China uses crypto to hide funds and identities in its illicit drug operations.
Contrary to the popular notion that ransomware hackers are sophisticated launderers of their stolen money, research shows they use straightforward mechanisms to transfer their bitcoin - allowing researchers to follow their money trail. Only a small number of them transacted with a crypto mixer.
This week, Mixin Network investigated a $200 million hack; Web3 lost $889 million to hacks, phishing scams and rug pulls during the third quarter; hackers stole $8 million from HTX; Binance sought to dismiss the SEC wash trading case; and Nansen and OpenSea suffered third-party security incidents.
This week, hackers stole $70 million from CoinEx, FTX resumed online claims, Balancer suffered a breach, Celsius creditors are targets of phishing, nearly $900,000 was stolen from Mark Cuban's hot wallet, Malta prepares for crypto regulation and Hong Kong cracked down on illicit crypto exchanges.
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