Frauds

A Fraud Event

American’s love restaurants. And understanding how important they are to the economy, the United States Congress enacted special measures in the CARES Act to support the restaurant industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Restaurant Revitalization Fund (RFF) was designed to provide eligible restaurants with funding equal to their COVID-19 pandemic-related revenue losses. RRF recipients were […]
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Cyber Updates

Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs

Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout from that investigation finds this dark ad tech industry is far more resilient and incestuous than previously known. …

Frauds

Numbers Mean Something

The numbers will remind us how many losses we had due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like the losses incurred by schemes created from fraudsters like Macovian Doston, Shatara Hubbard, Torella Wynn, who defrauded the Georgia Department of Labor (GaDOL) out of tens of millions of dollars in benefits meant to assist unemployed individuals during the […]
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Cyber Updates

Patch Tuesday, June 2025 Edition

Microsoft today released security updates to fix at least 67 vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and software. Redmond warns that one of the flaws is already under active attack, and that software blueprints showing how to exploit a pervasive Windows bug patched this month are now public.  …

Frauds

Helping A Brother

Back in 1993, Walter’s brother Edward needed to hide. So, Walter, being the good brother, invented a fake identity. And Edward, to evade an arrest warrant, began living in Las Vegas under the false identity of “Steven Connie.” For 16 years, he fraudulently collected insurance and income through Social Security until he was arrested in […]
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Frauds

A Position of Fraud

After years of medical school, many graduates are content to be referred to as “Doctor.” But Jorge Zamora- Quezada, a rheumatologist who was licensed to practice medicine, preferred to call himself “Eminencia,” or eminence. Quite a lofty term for someone perpetuated a healthcare scheme from fraudulent claims and false diagnoses that not only put patients […]
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Cyber Updates

Proxy Services Feast on Ukraine’s IP Address Exodus

Ukraine has seen nearly one-fifth of its Internet space come under Russian control or sold to Internet address brokers since February 2022, a new study finds. The analysis indicates large chunks of Ukrainian Internet address space are now in the hands of proxy and anonymity services nested at some of America’s largest Internet service providers (ISPs). …