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Authorities in 15 Countries Helped Dismantle Operations Following 2019 TakedownThe U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has wrapped up its investigation of the xDedic dark web marketplace and successfully dismantled the multinational criminal organizations, leading to charges against 19 individuals, including administrators, developers and customer service reps.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the end of a transnational investigation into the dark web xDedic cybercrime marketplace, charging 19 suspects for their involvement in running and using the market's services. [...]

If AI Voice Cloning Can't Be Stopped, That Would Serve as Red Flag for PolicymakersDo you have what it takes to build defenses that can easily and reliably spot voice cloning that is generated using artificial intelligence tools? If so, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission wants you to apply to its Voice Cloning Challenge, which promises a top prize of $25,000.

If AI Voice Cloning Can't Be Stopped, That Would Serve as Red Flag for PolicymakersDo you have what it takes to build defenses that can easily and reliably spot voice cloning generated using artificial intelligence tools? If so, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission wants you to apply to its Voice Cloning Challenge, which promises a top prize of $25,000.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has started accepting submissions for its Voice Cloning Challenge, a public competition with a $25,000 top prize for ideas that protect consumers from the danger of AI-enabled voice cloning for fraudulent activity. [...]

American cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant had its X (formerly Twitter) account compromised for more than six hours by an unknown attacker to propagate a cryptocurrency scam

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. [...]

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. [...]

Pay up, or just decline to submit One of America's biggest private freight shippers, Estes Express Lines, has told more than 20,000 customers that criminals stole their personal information.…

A Nigerian national was arrested in Ghana and is facing charges related to business email compromise (BEC) attacks that caused a charitable organization in the United States to lose more than $7.5 million. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a recently patched flaw in Google Chrome and a bug affecting an open-source Perl library for reading information in an Excel file called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday said it reached a settlement with VoIP service provider XCast over allegations that it facilitated illegal telemarketing campaigns since at least January 2018, in contravention of the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR)

The U.S. division of Xerox Business Solutions (XBS) has been compromised by hackers, and a limited amount of personal information might have been exposed, according to an announcement by the parent company, Xerox Corporation. [...]