Published on: 2025-06-08 21:56:31
The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL, a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called “pig butchering” crypto scams that have led to $200 million in losses for Americans victims. On Thursday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the sanctions, saying FUNNULL is “linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI.” The press release said that the $200 million in losses results in an average l
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 01:44:32
A federal judge has given Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees access to US Treasury payment systems as long as they meet training and vetting requirements but denied the Trump administration's motion to completely dissolve a preliminary injunction. US District Judge Jeannette Vargas of the Southern District of New York is overseeing a case filed against President Trump by 19 states led by New York. In February, Vargas issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Treasury Dep
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 21:20:04
After faithfully serving Americans since 1787, the penny is on its way to retirement. The United States Treasury announced it won’t place any more orders for penny blanks. That means once current supplies run out, new pennies will not be introduced into circulation. The Washington Post reported that the Treasury placed its final order for blanks this month with expectations that it will run out by early 2026. You can keep spending pennies as normal after that. But at some point, businesses will
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US stocks tumbled following President Donald Trump's announcement last week of widespread retaliatory tariffs and a 10% universal import tax, triggering fears of rising consumer prices and a potential recession. But it was surging bond yields, not plunging stocks, that got the White House's attention. Shortly after pausing the "reciprocal tariffs" that went into effect on Wednesday, Trump said he'd been watching the bond market closely and he acknowledged that "people were getting a little quea
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In Brief U.S. Treasury officials have lifted sanctions on Tornado Cash, a crypto mixer that the U.S. government previously said was used to launder $7 billion worth of crypto stolen by North Korean hackers. In a statement, the Treasury said it “exercised our discretion” to delist Tornado Cash following a legal battle. Sanctions make it illegal for Americans or U.S. businesses to transact with a listed entity. Crypto mixers allow customers to conceal where their crypto came from, including tai
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-05 08:25:16
A now-former DOGE aide violated US Treasury policy by emailing an unencrypted database containing people's private information to two Trump administration officials, according to a court document filed Friday. That filing pertains to a February lawsuit brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James and 18 other state AGs challenging DOGE's access to the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Services (BFS), which disburses trillions of dollars annually to US households, federal employees, a
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A staffer working for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) broke Treasury policies by sending an email containing unencrypted personal information, according to testimony from a senior government cybersecurity official in a federal lawsuit. Marko Elez, a DOGE staffer working at the U.S. Treasury, emailed a spreadsheet with unencrypted personally identifiable information to two Trump administration officials prior to his resignation in early February after racist social media posts lin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-25 05:12:56
Only rarely does the West get a glimpse inside the vast hacker-for-hire contractor ecosystem that enables China's digital intrusion campaigns worldwide. Now a new set of criminal charges against a dozen Chinese nationals, including two government officials, accuses them of a vast espionage campaign that included breaching the US Treasury, and goes as far as revealing the internal communications of some of those alleged hackers, their tools, and their business relationships. The US Department of
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Only rarely does the West get a glimpse inside the vast hacker-for-hire contractor ecosystem that enables China's digital intrusion campaigns worldwide. Now a new set of criminal charges against a dozen Chinese nationals, including two government officials, accuses them of a vast espionage campaign that included breaching the US Treasury, and goes as far as revealing the internal communications of some of those alleged hackers, their tools, and their business relationships. The US Department of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 06:59:33
A federal judge today blocked DOGE from accessing personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Today's ruling follows one on Friday in a different court that blocked DOGE's access to Department of Treasury information. The American Federation of Teachers and other "plaintiffs have shown that Education and OPM likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing their personal information to DOGE affiliates without their consent," said the order issued
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-08 06:59:33
A federal judge today blocked DOGE from accessing personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Today's ruling follows one on Friday in a different court that blocked DOGE's access to Department of Treasury information. The American Federation of Teachers and other "plaintiffs have shown that Education and OPM likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing their personal information to DOGE affiliates without their consent," said the order issued
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A federal judge today blocked DOGE from accessing personal data held by the US Department of Education and Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Today's ruling follows one on Friday in a different court that blocked DOGE's access to Department of Treasury information. The American Federation of Teachers and other "plaintiffs have shown that Education and OPM likely violated the Privacy Act by disclosing their personal information to DOGE affiliates without their consent," said the order issued
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-05 02:39:20
The Trump White House and Treasury Department officials have agreed to prohibit the U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal taxpayer data, according to two people familiar with the arrangement, heading off a brewing privacy crisis at the tax agency. Gavin Kliger, a software engineer with Elon Musk’s DOGE effort assigned to the IRS, will have read-only access to anonymized tax data, the same access granted to academic researchers and IT professionals who work on IRS systems, said the people, wh
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