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A VoIP provider was at the heart of billions of robocalls made over the past five years that broke a slew of US regulations, from enabling telemarketing scams to calling numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, it is claimed. Los-Angeles-based XCast Labs allowed robocalls from telemarketers to flow through its voice-over-IP network to folks despite multiple warnings over several years that many of the calls ran afoul of the America's Telemarketing Sales Rule, the FTC alleged in a 13-page complaint [PDF] filed May 12 in a California federal court.
Google said it obtained a court order to shut down domains used to distribute CryptBot after suing the distributors of the info-stealing malware. The court granted Google a temporary restraining order, which allowed it to shut down the bot operators' internet infrastructure.
A cancer patient whose nude medical photos and records were posted online after they were stolen by a ransomware gang, has sued her healthcare provider for allowing the "Preventable" and "Seriously damaging" leak. LVHN refused to pay the ransom, and earlier this month BlackCat started leaking patient info, including images of at least two breast cancer patients, naked from the waist up.
The U.S. Justice Department has filed a federal lawsuit today against Google for abusing its dominant position in the online advertising market. The U.S. government alleges that Google used acquisitions of other companies in the ad market to remove competitors and forced advertisers and publishers to use its services using its control over the ad tech services.
Meta has sued several Chinese companies doing business as HeyMods, Highlight Mobi, and HeyWhatsApp for developing and allegedly using "Unofficial" WhatsApp Android apps to steal over one million WhatsApp accounts starting May 2022. Once installed, the apps used bundled malware to harvest sensitive info, including account authentication, to hijack their WhatsApp accounts to send spam messages.
The Federal Trade Commission has sued Kochava, a large location data provider, for allegedly selling data that the FTC says can track people at reproductive health clinics and places of worship, according to an announcement from the agency. "Defendant's violations are in connection with acquiring consumers' precise geolocation data and selling the data in a format that allows entities to track the consumers' movements to and from sensitive locations, including, among others, locations associated with medical care, reproductive health, religious worship, mental health temporary shelters, such as shelters for the homeless, domestic violence survivors, or other at risk populations, and addiction recovery," the lawsuit reads.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday said it filed a lawsuit against Kochava, a location data broker, for collecting and selling precise geolocation data gathered from consumers' mobile devices. The complaint alleges that the U.S. company amasses a "Wealth of information" about users by purchasing data from other data brokers to sell to its own clients.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced today that it filed a lawsuit against Idaho-based data broker Kochava for selling sensitive and precise geolocation data collected from hundreds of millions of mobile devices. The company provides access to consumers' location data through a data feed its clients can access via online data marketplaces after paying for a $25,000 subscription.
Amazon is suing over 10,000 administrators of Facebook groups that offer to post fake reviews on the online souk's website in exchange for products and money. Group admins charged $10 per fake review, according to CNBC. Reviewers were also lured with promises of free products in return for sham assessments of items such as car stereos or camera tripods.
Google on Monday disclosed that it's taking legal action against a nefarious actor who has been spotted operating fraudulent websites to defraud unsuspecting people into buying non-existent puppies. "The actor used a network of fraudulent websites that claimed to sell basset hound puppies - with alluring photos and fake customer testimonials - in order to take advantage of people during the pandemic," Google's CyberCrime Investigation Group manager Albert Shin and senior counsel Mike Trinh said.