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Steve Herman

@w7voa
65 posts
2025-01-05
US imposes sanctions on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Tech, which has links to China's Ministry of State Security, for its role “in multiple computer intrusion incidents against U.S. victims.” https://home.treasury.gov/... https://journa.host/...
2025-01-05 View on X
TechCrunch

The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology Group over its alleged links to attacks by China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon

home.treasury.gov/news/press- r... Steve Herman / @newsguy : US imposes sanctions on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Tech, which has links to China's Ministry of ...

2025-01-04
US imposes sanctions on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Tech, which has links to China's Ministry of State Security, for its role “in multiple computer intrusion incidents against U.S. victims.” https://home.treasury.gov/... https://journa.host/...
2025-01-04 View on X
TechCrunch

The US sanctions Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Technology over its alleged links to China-backed hacking group Flax Typhoon

home.treasury.gov/news/press- r... Steve Herman / @newsguy : US imposes sanctions on the Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Tech, which has links to China's Ministry of ...

2025-01-01
New sanctions unveiled by the Treasury Department against Iranian and Russian organizations, alleging they sought to interfere in the 2024 presidential election here in the US. https://ofac.treasury.gov/... https://journa.host/...
2025-01-01 View on X
NBC News

The US Treasury sanctions Iranian and Russian entities over attempted election interference, including a Moscow entity that directed the creation of deepfakes

The Treasury Department said Iran and Russia sought to divide Americans through targeted disinformation campaigns in the 2024 elections.

DoJ and FTC have filed a civil enforcement action against Dave Inc. and its CEO,Jason Wilk, alleging they misled consumers by deceptively advertising cash advances and charging hidden fees. https://www.justice.gov/... https://journa.host/...
2025-01-01 View on X
Reuters

The US DOJ files a complaint and announces a civil enforcement action against fintech startup Dave and CEO Jason Wilk, replacing an FTC complaint from November

Press release: www.justice.gov/opa/pr/unite...  [embedded post] Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : There's no such thing as a free lunch.  The DOJ has taken action ag...

2023-03-16
Guo (who has a number of aliases, including Miles Kwok) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Feb. 2022 after a court ordered him to pay $134 million for attempting to avoid debt collection. He also has been a financial backer of Trump's former advisor, Steve Bannon.
2023-03-16 View on X
Reuters

The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of $1B+, including $262M through a crypto “ecosystem”

SEC charges exiled Chinese businessman Miles Guo and his financial advisor William Je for their involvement in unregistered and fraudulent offerings that raised more than $850 million. https://www.sec.gov/...
2023-03-16 View on X
Reuters

The US charges exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui with a conspiracy to defraud his online followers out of $1B+, including $262M through a crypto “ecosystem”

2022-12-08
Despite objections from law enforcement, @Apple has decided to offer fully encrypted backups of photos, chat histories and most other user data in its cloud storage system. https://www.apple.com/...
2022-12-08 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Apple plans to launch Advanced Data Protection, offering E2EE on iCloud backups, Notes, Photos, and more, in the US in 2022 and globally including China in 2023

‘Advanced Data Protection’ will offer end-to-end encryption on iCloud backups, Notes, Photos and other services—a step that may draw ire from law enforcement

2022-11-19
“Like all language models, Galactica is a mindless bot that cannot tell fact from fiction. Within hours, scientists were sharing its biased and incorrect results on social media.” ⁦@Meta⁩ https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...
2022-11-19 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Meta AI and Papers with Code pull Galactica three days after launch, amid criticism the large language model for generating scientific text asserts falsehoods

and its hubris—show once again that Big Tech has a blind spot about the severe limitations of large language models. https://www.technologyreview.com/ ...

2022-09-28
About 1,600 fake @facebook accounts used to spread #Russia propaganda about #Ukraine have been removed, according to @Meta. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-09-28 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia

complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Su...

2022-09-27
About 1,600 fake @facebook accounts used to spread #Russia propaganda about #Ukraine have been removed, according to @Meta. https://about.fb.com/...
2022-09-27 View on X
Protocol

Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news websites to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and China, targeting the US and Czechia

Russia set up a sprawling and sophisticated network of websites impersonating mainstream media outlets, which it used …

2022-07-11
Leaked confidential files reveal how @Uber flouted laws, duped police, exploited violence against drivers and secretly lobbied governments during its aggressive global expansion, reports the @guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-07-11 View on X
The Guardian

A trove of 124k+ internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveals management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion

- More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian  — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne

2022-06-17
Meanwhile, a decade-old #crypto mulit-billion dollar hedge fund is “exploring options including asset sales and a rescue by another firm.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-06-17 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital is exploring options including asset sales and a rescue by another firm, and says it invested about $200M in Luna

Firm's founders say they still believe in the future of cryptocurrencies  —  Cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd …

Meanwhile, a decade-old #crypto mulit-billion dollar hedge fund is “exploring options including asset sales and a rescue by another firm.” https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-06-17 View on X
Financial Times

Sources: BlockFi was among the groups that liquidated at least some positions held by Three Arrows Capital, which failed to meet margin calls this past weekend

BlockFi was among a clutch of firms that liquidated the Singapore-based group's positions  —  Three Arrows Capital failed …

2022-05-13
#Twitter execs for consumer products and revenue are departing and most hiring will be paused, @paraga tells staff in an e-mail, reports @Reuters.
2022-05-13 View on X
Reuters

Elon Musk says his Twitter deal is “temporarily on hold” pending a review of “spam/fake accounts”, but he is “still committed to acquisition”; stock drops 5%+

Elon Musk said on Friday his $44-billion deal for Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) was temporarily on hold … Source: @elonmusk and @elonmusk .

#Twitter execs for consumer products and revenue are departing and most hiring will be paused, @paraga tells staff in an e-mail, reports @Reuters.
2022-05-13 View on X
Bloomberg

In a memo, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announces a hiring freeze and other cost-cutting efforts; VP of product Jay Sullivan will take over as head of product

Elon Musk's deal is looking wobbly, and the CEO just fired his top two lieutenants Rob Quinn / Newser : Elon Musk Says Twitter Deal Is ‘Temporarily on Hold’ Charlesarthur / The Ove...

2022-05-08
Today, ⁦@USTreasury⁩ #OFAC announced it has sanctioned virtual currency mixer #Blender, which is used by the #DPRK “to support its malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of stolen virtual currency.” https://home.treasury.gov/...
2022-05-08 View on X
The Record

The US sanctions cryptocurrency mixing service Blender.io for allegedly laundering $20.5M from the Axie Infinity hack, the first time the US sanctioned a mixer

2022-05-07
Today, ⁦@USTreasury⁩ #OFAC announced it has sanctioned virtual currency mixer #Blender, which is used by the #DPRK “to support its malicious cyber activities and money-laundering of stolen virtual currency.” https://home.treasury.gov/...
2022-05-07 View on X
The Record

The US sanctions cryptocurrency mixing service Blender.io for allegedly laundering $20.5M from the Axie Infinity hack, the first time the US sanctioned a mixer

The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned a cryptocurrency mixing service for the first time, citing evidence that it was used …

2022-04-22
Also on the list: @PentagonPresSec, @GStephanopoulos and @biannagolodryga. https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-22 View on X
TechCrunch

Russia expands its entry ban on Americans to include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky

2022-03-15
#Foxconn, which is the biggest assembler of @Apple #iPhones, reportedly in talks with #KSA about jointly building a $9 billion multipurpose facility. https://www.wsj.com/...
2022-03-15 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: Foxconn is in talks with Saudi Arabia to jointly build a $9B factory for chips, components, and electronics in Neom; Foxconn is also talking to the UAE

2022-02-12
Declassified letter indicates @CIA has a secret, undisclosed data repository with information collected about Americans which two US senators contend is “outside the statutory framework that Congress and the public believe govern this collection.” https://www.wyden.senate.gov/ ...
2022-02-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Senators Wyden and Heinrich: declassified docs show a CIA bulk surveillance program collecting Americans' data without clear judicial or congressional oversight

The lawmakers called for the immediate declassification of details about the surveillance program and what data was collected Source: U.S. Senator Ron Wyden … .