The US may be starting to crack down on cryptocurrency exchanges that don’t make it a priority to combat scammers. The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has sent letters to several federal agencies and five digital asset exchanges for information and documents related to how they are tackling cryptocurrency fraud. The cryptocurrency exchanges they contacted are FTX, Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin, and Kraken, while the agencies they contacted include the Department of the Treasury, the Federal Trade Commission, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A judge in Ohio has ruled that a room scan during a remote test violated a student’s fourth amendment rights, which aims to protect citizens against “unreasonable searches and seizures”. 

With online privacy being such a hot-button issue in recent years, it’s kind of surprising that Facebook Messenger, one of the most-used messenger apps, hasn’t yet implemented end-to-end encryption by default. Particularly when WhatsApp, another Meta-owned messaging app, has been offering end-to-end encryption since 2016. Right now, your Facebook messages can be accessed by Meta staff and could even be handed over to law enforcement, much like a recent case in Nebraska.

A man in Eagle Rock, Las Vegas, has been found guilty of hacking into phone carrier systems to unlock phones, cultivating a multi-million dollar business. According to the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Argishti Khudaverdyan carried out the scheme between August 2014 to June 2019 and involved phones from T-mobile, Sprint, AT&T, and other carriers.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine, it has been cracking down on Internet freedoms within its own country. Disconnecting from the global Internet has played a considerable part in that, with the government successfully blocking sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and around 5,500 more. Other measures include cracking down on VPNs, introducing legislation to stop critical infrastructure from using foreign software, and planning to create a Russian app store to combat Russian data being utilized internationally. 

Encevo Group, an energy conglomerate based in Luxembourg, is still facing disruption more than two weeks after it was hit by a ransomware attack. The group behind BlackCat ransomware has since claimed responsibility for the attack, threatening to publish some 150GB of data it stole during the breach if Encevo Group does not meet its demands. 

In quarters 1 and 2 of 2022, Web3 projects have lost over $2 billion to hacks and exploits. This sum is far more than what was stolen over 2021. 214% more, to be exact. According to a quarterly report from blockchain security company CertiK, one of the key reasons for these astronomical figures is the recent uptick in flash loan attacks.