Sanctions

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Funnull Technology, a Philippines-based company that supports hundreds of thousands of malicious websites behind cyber scams linked to over $200 million in losses for Americans. Funnull facilitated virtual currency investment scams (also known as romance baiting and pig butchering) by buying IP addresses in bulk from various cloud service

Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia, and AMD have almost booked TSMC's 3nm process to full capacity. Credit: TSMC TSMC has recently notified a large group of Chinese mainland IC (Integrated Circuit) design companies that shipments of 16nm/14nm and below products will be suspended unless they are packaged by an OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test) company on

By Mark Hunter 4 weeks agoThu Mar 06 2025 08:54:58 Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Behrouz Parsarad, an Iranian national, for operating the illicit Nemesis darknet marketplace Nemesis, which facilitated the sale of drugs, stolen data, and cybercrime services, was shut down in a law

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TLDR U.S. Treasury sanctioned two individuals, Lu Huaying and Zhang Jian, for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea through a UAE front company The sanctions freeze assets and prohibit Americans from doing business with the sanctioned individuals and their company, Green Alpine Trading LLC North Korean hackers, including Lazarus Group, are increasingly targeting crypto sector

Seoul: Sanctions May Be Ineffective Against North Korea’s Crypto Hacks Source: Alexlmx/AdobeNorth Korea’s crypto hacking campaign may be impervious to international sanctions, a South Korean government official has claimed.According to the media outlet Yonhap TV News, an unnamed Seoul-based government official stated:“The scale of North Korea’s cybercrime-related activities suggests that the international community’s sanctions against

By Friederike Heine and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -Ukraine’s allies around the world lit up buildings in yellow and blue, held protests and candlelight vigils and prepared new sanctions on Moscow on Friday in a collective show of support on the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion. As the war grinds on with no sign of

Years-old sanctions on the Bashar Assad regime are receiving new scrutiny amid efforts to speed delivery of humanitarian aid to the tens of thousands of Syrians injured or displaced by this month’s devastating earthquake. But the debate in Washington, and in the Syrian diaspora community more broadly...