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A new report in The Wall Street Journal says federal judges are facing “increasing irritation” when dealing with Trump administration lawyers because they’re unsure of the accuracy of the information they’re getting before making important rulings.The…
Federal prosecutors used disgraced former Rep. George Santos’s (R-NY) social media posts against him in a court filing Thursday as they seek a lengthy prison sentence for fraud.Santos pleaded guilty last August to 23 federal fraud charges of stealing …
CNN special correspondent Jamie Gangel called “furious” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s take down of Department of Justice officials a “message” to the entire administration that their continued challenges to the U.S. judicial system “is not ac…
Federal judges have ruled that the current administration has defied the law in more than a dozen cases, including three major rulings this week, in the short time since Trump has taken office, according to reporting in The Washington Post.Senior poli…
A Ukrainian national was extradited to the United States from the Netherlands after being indicted for crimes related to fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft. According to court documents, Mark Sokolovsky conspired to operate the Racc…
The U.S. government today announced a coordinated crackdown against QakBot, a complex malware family used by multiple cybercrime groups to lay the groundwork for ransomware infections. The international law enforcement operation involved seizing control over the botnet’s online infrastructure, and quietly removing the Qakbot malware from tens of thousands of infected Microsoft Windows computer systems.
The site was running from 2014 and allegedly raked in more than $20m, which the DOJ is seeking to claw back…
Sentences still to be decided, but she could get up to 10 years and he could get as many as 20.
A man from Tracy, California, has been charged with a computer attack on the Discovery Bay water treatment facility. Rambler Gallo (53), a man from Tracy (California) has been charged with intentionally causing damage to a computer after he allegedly breached the network of the Discovery Bay Water Treatment Facility. The man targeted the water […]
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DoJ charged a Russian national with conspiring to carry out LockBit ransomware attacks against U.S. and foreign businesses. The Justice Department announced charges against the Russian national Ruslan Magomedovich Astamirov (20) for his role in numerous LockBit ransomware attacks against systems in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Africa. The US authorities arrested the man […]
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