Treasury Department Blacklists More Bitcoin Wallets Tied to Malicious Cyber Attacks

The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned ten folks and two entities linked to “conducting malicious cyber acts, together with ransomware exercise,” it introduced at the moment.  The sanctioned events are allegedly associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a department of the Iranian Armed Forces. This group is … Read more

US Treasury Department: Users Will Need a License to Withdraw Funds From Tornado Cash

On September 13, the U.S. Treasury Department revealed a information with a collection of steps for U.S. residents to observe so as to withdraw their funds from Tornado Cash. Tornado Cash was a mixing service shut down on August 8 by the U.S. Treasury Department. This occurred after investigations confirmed that the platform was used … Read more

Department of Treasury Publishes Guidelines on How to Withdraw Assets From Now-Banned Tornado Cash

The U.S. Department of Treasury revealed pointers on how customers of the now-banned crypto mixer Tornado Cash can withdraw their property.   The Treasury blacklisted and added the Ethereum (ETH)-based software program to the Specially Designated Nationals record on Aug. 8, citing a nationwide safety subject. This record incorporates people, entities, and crypto addresses that U.S. … Read more

Coinbase to Finance User’s Lawsuit Against Treasury Department for Tornado Cash Sanctions

Coinbase is supporting a lawsuit in opposition to sanctioning an Ethereum-based crypto mixer, Tornado Cash. The alternate is financing the lawsuit in opposition to the U.S. Treasury Department that at the moment options six plaintiffs, together with a number of Coinbase staff as a result of they consider it’s the precise factor to do. Coinbase … Read more

Coinbase Funds Lawsuit Against Treasury Department for Sanctioning Tornado Cash

America’s largest cryptocurrency change is supporting a legal problem in opposition to the U.S. Treasury Department following its sanctions in opposition to the privateness protocol Tornado Cash. The lawsuit’s plaintiffs embrace 6 people who’ve personally used the mixer, a few of which embrace Coinbase workers. Defending Tornado’s Use Cases As reported by CNBC, Coinbase’s senior … Read more

US Justice Department in early stages of drafting possible antitrust suit against Apple: Report

The U.S. Justice Department is in the early stages of drafting a potential antitrust criticism against Apple Inc, Politico reported on Friday, citing an individual with direct information of the matter. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to remark. Apple didn’t instantly reply to Reuters requests for remark. Politico reported the Justice Department has not decided … Read more

US Justice Department releases redacted Mar-a-Lago search affidavit

Fourteen of the 15 packing containers recovered from former President Donald Trump’s Florida property earlier this 12 months contained paperwork with classification markings, based on an FBI affidavit launched Friday explaining the justification for the search of the property this month. The 32-page affidavit, even in its redacted type, incorporates extra particulars about an ongoing … Read more

Los Angeles Police Department seizes 40 cars in a crackdown on street takeovers but will return cars in 30 days

The LAPD boasted about seizing 40 cars throughout a variety of raids on unlawful street takeovers throughout the town, but stated it will return the cars to their homeowners after 30 days. That’s nice news for the towing firms that contract with the town to impound the cars as a result of they will have … Read more

It’s likely Fox’s legal department forced Kilmeade to tweet a “clarification” about the defamatory doctored photo of FBI judge

As we posted earlier, Fox News host Brian Kilmeade tried to move off a defamatory faux photo of U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart — who signed off on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago FBI search — as the actual factor. Here’s a video of Kilmeade making the boldfaced declare that the photo was certainly real. — Read … Read more

Alabama town disbands police department over racist text

A racist text message despatched by a police officer has prompted officers in a small Alabama town to disband their police department and fireplace the police chief and assistant chief.Vincent Mayor James Latimore on Thursday confirmed that Police Chief James Srygley and Assistant Chief John L. Goss had been dismissed, al.com reported. The Shelby County … Read more