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US charges admins of Garantex for allegedly facilitating crypto money laundering for terrorists and hackers

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The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday criminal charges against the administrators of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange Garantex for allegedly facilitating money laundering by criminal and terrorist organizations, as well as violating U.S. sanctions.  The two administrators are Lithuanian national and Russian resident Aleksej Besciokov, 46, and Aleksandr Mira Serda, 40, a Russian national […]

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Russian crypto exchange Garantex seized by law enforcement operation

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The U.S. Secret Service, working with a coalition of international law enforcement agencies, has taken down and seized the website of Garantex, a Russian cryptocurrency exchange accused of being associated with darknet markets and ransomware hackers.  On Thursday, the official Garantex website was replaced with a notice saying the exchange’s domain has been seized by

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US Justice Department sues to block HPE’s $14B acquisition of Juniper Networks

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The U.S. Department of Justice has sued to block enterprise tech giant HPE from acquiring Juniper Networks, the networking firm, citing antitrust concerns. In a complaint filed in California federal court Thursday, the Justice Department said the deal would consolidate the market for enterprise wireless equipment from three major vendors — HPE, Cisco, and Juniper

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The DOJ wants a Perplexity executive to testify in its Google antitrust case

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A U.S. court ruled in August that Google has a search monopoly, and while Google appeals, the Justice Department is figuring out what kind of potential penalties to impose — like breaking off Chrome.  As part of this process, the DOJ wants to call on a specific witness, according to a recent court filing: Dmitry

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DOJ asks court to reject TikTok’s bid to temporarily block sell-or-ban law

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The Department of Justice has asked a U.S. appeals court to reject ByteDance and TikTok’s emergency motion that aims to temporarily block the law that would ban TikTok in the U.S. unless the social network divests from Chinese ownership by January 19.  The Justice Department said the court should not delay the matter, arguing that

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Snowflake hackers identified and charged with stealing 50 billion AT&T records

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The U.S. government has accused Connor Moucka and John Binns of being the hackers who broke into the systems of AT&T, stealing around 50 billion customer call and text records.  In July, AT&T said hackers stole the phone records of “nearly all” of its cellular and landline customers, as well as calls and text message

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FTC refers TikTok child privacy case to Justice Department

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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced on Tuesday that it has referred a complaint against TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to the Department of Justice. The agency was investigating the company over potential violations of the Children’s Online Privacy Act and was looking into whether TikTok violated a law that prohibits “unfair and deceptive” business

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US sues Adobe for hiding termination fees and making it difficult to cancel subscriptions

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The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Adobe alleging that the company deceives consumers by hiding the early-termination fee and making it difficult for people to cancel their subscriptions. In the complaint filed on Monday, the DOJ wrote that “Adobe has harmed consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription

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