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🎯 TD Bank repeatedly gave inaccurate customer data to consumer reporting agencies. TD Bank shared data including personal bankruptcies, credit card delinquencies and bank accounts that it "knew or suspected were fraudulently opened." CBS
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🌎 Treasury Targets Venezuelan Officials Aligned with Nicolas Maduro. OFAC designated 16 Maduro-aligned officials who obstructed the presidential election process and violated the human rights of the people. U.S. Treasury
🌎 CFTC announces partnerships to tackle crypto pig butchering scams. Pig butchering scams have increasingly replaced Ponzi schemes as criminals reap higher rewards from more targeted attacks. Block
🌎 A Venezuelan Gang Is Expanding Its Deadly Reach to the U.S. Founded in a prison, Tren de Aragua involvement is suspected in 100 U.S. cases, bringing its violent brand of robbery and drug trafficking north. WSJ
🚩 Treasury Sanctions Cambodian Tycoon Linked to Human Trafficking and Cyber and Virtual Currency Scams U.S. Treasury
🌎 Meet Margarita Simonyan, queen of Russia’s covert information wars. While the Kremlin has denied U.S. accusations of information operations, Simonyan proudly admits that her work is at the behest of the Russian government. WaPo
🌎 How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad - and won. It began as a routine investigation into a multinational called ENRC. It became a decade-long saga that has rocked the UK’s financial crime agency. Guardian
🌎 South Africa’s Ties with U.S. Adversaries Continue Unabated. Beyond its embrace of Russia, the ANC remains one of Hamas and Iran’s most important supporters on the world stage. FDD
🌎 The Global Jihadi Terror Threat in September 2024. Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the Gaza war have seen a collapse of international unity of purpose on counterterrorism. West Point
🚩 Pakistani man who targeted U.S. officials in murder-for-hire plot faces new terrorism charge CBS
🌎 U.S. seizes over 350 websites used to import gun parts from China. The packages contained machine gun conversion devices known as "switches" and silencers that are prohibited under the National Firearms Act. Reuters
🌎 Chinese military company's machinery in use at nation's top secret research lab. Los Alamos is one of the most top-secret labs in the country where the atomic bomb was produced. Fox
🌎 North Korean Missiles Rain Down on Ukraine Despite Sanctions. The Hwasong-11 missile has a range of 430 miles and can be fitted with nuclear warheads. NYT
🌎 International arms embargo on Darfur renewed as fighting rages. Sudan’s envoy welcomed the extension but urged the council to sanction the entire Rapid Support Forces militia. VOA
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