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Federal Workers Allowed To Purchase Supplies From Online Retailers

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Federal workers, through partnerships with several online retailers, will now be able to purchase equipment like desks or office supplies through an eCommerce network for the first time, The Washington Post reports. The GSA is estimated to spend around $6 billion per year on open market credit card purchases.

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Ex-Microsoft Engineer Guilty Of 18 Felonies After Pilfering $10M In eCurrency

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Software developer and Ukrainian native Volodymyr Kvashuk, 25, from Renton, Washington, worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, and was tasked with testing Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. dripping fraud and deceit every step of the way…. Sentencing takes place on June 1, and he faces up to 20 years in prison.

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Bitcoin Daily: Brazil Debuts Blockchain Solution For Gov’t Bids; BitFunder CEO Gets 14 Months For Crypto Fraud

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Design and Cayenne Technology reportedly created the Online Bid Solution (SOL), which is said to be a technology based on the blockchain. And the operator of BitFunder, a defunct trading platform that was denominated in bitcoin, and WeExchange was sentenced for obstruction of justice as well as securities fraud, CoinDesk reported.

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From Russia, With Malware: US Charges Hackers In $100M Bank Fraud

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The duo allegedly — and with the help of more than a dozen others — worked to deploy malware known as Dridex (aka Cridex and Bugat) and for committing wire and bank fraud. They are connected with a Russian hacking group known as Evil Corp., which has been known to release malware. Losses from those malware deployments came in at $70 million.

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Fighting The Known Unknowns In Digital Identity Fraud

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According to the latest edition of the PYMNTS Global Fraud Index – after a short lull post-EMV in the U.S., when fraud briefly went down – they have bounced back with a vengeance. They just moved online, and started looking for easy-to-open windows. The Many Ways To Play At Fraud.

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Pandemic Scammers Robbed US Consumers Of More Than $77M

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Americans have lost more than $77 million in COVID-19 fraud since the start of the year, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). But that number misses an unprecedented scope of scams connected to the coronavirus, according to John Breyault , a spokesman for the National Consumers League , the Washington, D.C.-based

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From Russia, with Malware: US Charges Hacking Group Evil Corp. In $100M Bank Fraud

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The duo allegedly — and with the help of more than a dozen others — worked to deploy malware known as Dridex (aka Cridex and Bugat) and for committing wire and bank fraud. They are connected with a Russian hacking group known as Evil Corp., which has been known to release malware. Losses from those malware deployments came in at $70 million.

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