The Justice Department today announced the results of its 2025 National Health Care Fraud Takedown, which resulted in criminal charges against 324 defendants, including 96 doctors, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other licensed medical professionals, in 50 federal districts and 12 State Attorneys General’s Offices across the United States, for their alleged participation in various health…
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Hacker helped kill FBI sources, witnesses in El Chapo case, according to watchdog report
Tim Starks reports: A hacker working on behalf of the Sinaloa drug cartel infiltrated cameras and phones to track an FBI official in Mexico investigating the drug lord El Chapo, then used data from that surveillance to kill and intimidate potential sources and witnesses the agent was meeting with, a Justice Department watchdog report revealed….
Kansas City Man Pleads Guilty for Hacking a Non-Profit
There’s an update to a case reported previously on this site. From the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri: KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Kansas City, Mo., man has pleaded guilty for hacking into the computer system at an area nonprofit. Nicholas Michael Kloster, 32, admitted during his plea that he caused…
Iran-Linked Threat Actors Leak Visitors and Athletes’ Data from Saudi Games
Resecurity reports: Today (June 22, 2025) — the threat actors associated with the “Cyber Fattah” movement leaked thousands of records containing information about visitors and athletes from past Saudi Games, one of the major sports events in the Kingdom. The stolen data has been leaked in the form of SQL dumps – the actors gained unauthorized access to phpMyAdmin…
Largest Ever Seizure of Funds Related to Crypto Confidence Scams
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a civil forfeiture complaint in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against more than $225.3 million in cryptocurrency. According to the complaint, the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI used blockchain analysis and other investigative techniques to determine that the cryptocurrency is connected to the theft…
Copilot AI Bug Could Leak Sensitive Data via Email Prompts
Rashmi Ramesh reports: A well-phrased email was all an attacker would have needed to trick Microsoft Copilot into handing over sensitive data until the operating system giant patched the vulnerability. The vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot allowed attackers to extract sensitive data through a zero-click prompt injection attack, said researchers from Aim Security. Dubbed “EchoLeak” and tracked…