PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The indictment, which was unsealed on Tuesday (September 18) in a federal court in Baltimore, charged the men with conspiracy, wire fraud, identity theft and money laundering. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a civil complaint against the men in the same court for violations of federal securities laws.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Fraud knows no boundaries. Aside from the political implications of such claims, The New Yorker ‘s report pointed to the fraud risks that organizations face, even from the C-Suite. It also highlighted the predicament that organizations face if a C-Suite executive is found committing fraud. In the U.S., In The UK, Too.

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FICO

APRIL 28, 2021

From the minute the pandemic struck, domain names containing COVID were snapped up; check out this Krebs Security article to see how the spikes in domain registrations and traffic early in the pandemic, as fraudsters quickly began shilling all manner of fake medical goods, from personal protective equipment (PPE) to nebulizers. Numerous U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

Baltimore was also hacked, with criminals able to break into the city’s dispatch system that supports emergency calls. Baltimore CIO Frank Johnson called the hack a “limited breach.”. The ransomware caused Atlanta’s courthouse documents, and services like payment processing, to become inaccessible.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Baltimore-based Under Armour is being probed over its accounting practices by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Department of Justice, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sunday (Nov.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Ransomware has been becoming more widespread; Atlanta, Baltimore and multiple cities in Florida have all been affected in the past year. On Friday (Dec. 13), City Hall told workers, including police officers, to unplug their computers. The attack started at 11 a.m., according to New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

But cybercriminals — as the January 2020 edition of the PYMNTS Digital Fraud Tracker points out — have found municipalities, and have been enthusiastically moving through them as they’ve discovered municipal employees, unused to being targeted, make an excellent target for phishing attacks. Baltimore, like Atlanta, refused.

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