Cryptocurrency giants in $850m fraud allegations
The New York Attorney General has accused cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and cryptocurrency Tether of an $850m fraud. The State’s Attorney General Letitia…
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Chinese Apps Banned from Play Store for Ad Fraud
If you have a smartphone, you most likely download your apps through Google Play Store. It makes sense too, as it’s Google’s own app store with security…
Wirecard sees no conclusive fraud evidence as police start probe
FRANKFURT: Wirecard AG said neither the digital payments company nor a law firm it hired have found conclusive evidence of criminal misconduct as Singapore…
Man gets 5 years in prison for ‘global cell phone fraud scheme’
A Florida judge slapped a former state resident with a 65-month prison sentence Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to charges linked to a phone cloning ring.…
Adjust expands its anti-ad fraud tech by acquiring
Adjust, a Berlin-headquartered company focused on mobile ad measurement and fraud prevention, is acquiring bot detection startup Unbotify. Founded in 2012,…
Credit Cards With Constantly Changing CVVs Could Prevent Fraud
Refresh Idea When you buy something online, one of the last bits of info you enter is often your credit card’s card verification value (CVV). That’s the…
AriseBank Founders to Pay $2.7 Million in Fines to Settle ICO Fraud Charges
A United States federal court has ordered two executives from crypto firm AriseBank to pay nearly $2.7 million in fines, according to a U.S. Securities…
Inscribe raises $3 million to automate document fraud detection
Fraud detection startup Inscribe today announced the close of a $3 million funding round.Inscribe uses a combination of natural language processing and…
Google warns app developers of three malicious SDKs
A few days ago, Google removed popular Cheetah Mobile and Kika Tech apps from its Play Store following a BuzzFeed investigation, which discovered the apps…
Coinbase’s Former Fraud Lead Has Left to Join Tech Firm Twilio
One of Coinbase’s earliest employees, risk operations manager Rees Atlas, has left the Silicon Valley cryptocurrency exchange and the blockchain…