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Robert Wayne Boling Jr., a 45-year-old US citizen living in Angeles City, Philippines, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, the US Department of Justice announced. Prosecutors call him the principal orchestrator of a scheme that used stolen PII to compromise bank accounts of thousands of US servicemember…
A 40-year-old Nigerian national, Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a US federal court for a 2019-2023 scheme that combined hacking of US tax preparation businesses, filing of fraudulent tax returns and fake investment fraud. He used identities stolen from victim organizations to file false returns wit…
The Department of Justice announced 28 arrests across California on Monday under Operation Protect the Vote. The defendants are foreign nationals and permanent green card holders charged with fraudulently registering to vote and making false statements in naturalization applications. Officials say all 28 appear on a list of more than 20,0…
Authorities in North Macedonia have filed charges against the alleged administrator of OLVX, a cybercrime marketplace that sold stolen personal data, credentials and malicious tools from 2023 to 2025. The suspect is a 20-year-old North Macedonian national, identified only as "E.A.", and is charged with computer fraud, misuse of personal d…
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter to CISA and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) urging federal adoption of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH). ECH hides the name of the website a user visits from anyone monitoring network traffic. His office identified at least 350 federal sites that do not use ECH. Wyden warned that hackers and foreign adve…
The Department of Homeland Security is barring civilian federal agencies from buying or using IT products and services from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and its affiliates. The notice, due in the Federal Register, cites the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Act and a review by the Federal Acquisition Security Council. An accom…
CISA, the NSA and the Center for Advancing Innovation and Standards for Super Intelligence (CAISSI) at the Department of Commerce have issued joint, voluntary guidance urging frontier AI companies to harden the sandbox environments used to test AI agents. It follows a summer in which OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and others said their m…
VisionHeight, an Israeli threat intelligence firm, uncovered a network of hyperlocal websites spanning at least 14 US states, built to influence how AI chatbots answer questions about local and state races. Sites with names like "Wolverine State Report", "Peach State Bulletin" and "Tarheel State Report" repeat hundreds of near-identical s…
