California Shuts Down 42 Crypto Scam Sites—$6.5M Stolen in Massive Fraud
California has shut down 42 fraudulent crypto websites, exposing a $6.5 million scam that drained victims of an average $146,306 each. 42 Fraud Sites Dismantled—How Scammers Built Fake Crypto Worlds to Steal Millions California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on March 10 that the state had taken decisive action against fraudulent cryptocurrency schemes by shutting […] Powered by...
Authors Put a Spotlight on Meta’s BitTorrent Leeching Activity
In the race to build the most capable LLM models, several tech companies sourced copyrighted content for use as training data, without obtaining permission from content owners. Meta is among a long list of companies now being sued for this allegedly infringing activity, including a class action lawsuit filed by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden. This case has a clear piracy angle, as Meta used...
Police Shut Down Pirate Streaming Network That Cost Broadcaster ‘Millions’
For what appears to be operational reasons, police in Germany have only just revealed details of a massive law enforcement operation carried out against a pirate streaming operation last month. In a joint statement on Monday, the Police Headquarters of Upper Franconia and the Central Office for Cybercrime Bavaria, revealed the culmination of a two-year investigation into what is being described as an ‘illegal streaming network’. In...
