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Fraud News & Alerts
| 01/21 | Holding Government Contractors Accountable for Wrongdoing Argus Information and Advisory Services, a subsidiary of TransUnion, has agreed in... |
| 01/17 | Strengthening Appraisal Oversight: Progress at the Appraisal Subcom... CFPB Deputy Director Zixta Martinez discusses changes at the ASC since she became ... |
| 01/17 | Back from the Dead: Zombie Second Mortgages Forgotten second mortgages may be coming back to haunt homeowners who haven’t rece... |
| 01/16 | Holding Credit Reporting Companies Accountable for Junk Data Including junk data and mistakes on people's credit reports is against the law. |
| 01/15 | What We’re Watching: Language Access in Consumer Finance Financial institutions are increasingly serving consumers in languages other than ... |
| 01/14 | Strengthening State-Level Consumer Protections Today, the CFPB is releasing new recommendations to states on how they can update ... |
| 01/10 | LFG (Looking for gamers): CFPB wants to hear about your video game ... The CFPB invites video gamers to share their experiences with video game currencie... |
| 01/10 | New protections for payday and installment loans take effect March 30 The CFPB’s rule protecting payday and installment loan borrowers takes effect on M... |
| 01/02 | Protecting you from unlawful debt collection at work The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is stopping companies from improperly con... |
| 12/19 | New tactics from companies trying to charge illegal junk fees As companies are stopped from charging illegal junk fees, people are facing new ri... |
| 12/18 | FTC Approves Final Order against Rytr, Seller of an AI “Testimonial... The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order against Rytr, sett... |
| 12/17 | Food for thought: The FTC’s proposed settlement with Grubhub By Julia Solomon Ensor So, you’ve developed a technology-driven delivery platform ... |
| 12/17 | Getting to the bottom line: The FTC’s bipartisan Junk Fees Rule and... By Julia Solomon Ensor .field--name-body a[href$=".pdf"]:after, .field--name-body ... |
| 12/17 | Federal Trade Commission Announces Bipartisan Rule Banning Junk Tic... Image The Federal Trade Commission today announced a final Junk Fees Rule to prohi... |
| 12/17 | FTC, Illinois Attorney General Take Action Against Grubhub for Harm... Grubhub will pay $25 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission a... |
| 12/16 | FTC, Illinois Attorney General to Announce Major Law Enforcement Ac... The Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois Attorney General will announce a maj... |
| 12/12 | New FTC Data Show Skyrocketing Consumer Reports About Game-Like Onl... New Federal Trade Commission complaint data show a sharp spike in online job scams... |
| 12/10 | FTC Sends More Than $540,000 in Refunds to Consumers Harmed by Phan... The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $540,000 in refunds to consumers... |
| 12/10 | Statement on FTC’s Win in Lawsuit Against the Makers of Dietary Sup... Samuel Levine, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Prote... |
| 12/10 | FTC Staff Sends Warning Letters to Healthcare Plan Marketers and Le... As open enrollment season for healthcare plans is ongoing, the staff of the Federa... |
| 12/10 | Selling health insurance plans or healthcare-related products? Take... By Julia Solomon Ensor ‘Tis the season for healthcare-related marketing and advert... |
| 12/09 | FTC Sends Refund Payments to Consumers Impacted by Epic Games’ Unla... The Federal Trade Commission is sending refunds totaling more than $72 million to ... |
| 12/09 | FTC Acts to Stop Scheme that Bilked Millions out of Student Loan Bo... The Federal Trade Commission has stopped a scheme that allegedly bilked millions o... |
| 12/05 | As holiday shopping begins, the FTC and IRS agree: scams and identi... By Julia Solomon Ensor The turkey is gone, and the relatives have departed. We’ve ... |
| 12/05 | FTC Sends Payments to Consumers Harmed by Vivint’s Misuse of Consum... The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling nearly $500,000 to consu... |
| 12/05 | CreditRepair.com and Lexington Law refund checks: What you need to ... Over 4 million consumers harmed by Lexington Law and CreditRepair.com’s illegal cr... |
| 12/05 | CFPB Ombudsman’s Office 2024 Annual Report The CFPB Ombudsman’s Office shares its FY2024 Annual Report |
| 12/05 | Los cheques de reembolsos de CreditRepair.com y Lexington Law: Lo q... Más de 4 millones de consumidores, quienes fueron perjudicados por las actividades... |
| 12/04 | Protecting consumers’ location data: Key takeaways from four recent... By Bhavna Changrani Since the start of this year, the FTC has announced four groun... |
| 12/04 | FTC Sends Refunds to Consumers Deceived by False Claims of ‘Next Da... The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $114,000 to consumers who w... |
| 12/03 | Selling facial recognition technology or other biometric informatio... By Julia Solomon Ensor Today, the FTC continues its fight against unsupported clai... |
| 12/03 | FTC Takes Action Against Mobilewalla for Collecting and Selling Sen... The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. from sell... |
| 12/03 | FTC Takes Action Against Gravy Analytics, Venntel for Unlawfully Se... The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Gravy Analytics Inc. and its... |
| 12/03 | FTC Takes Action Against IntelliVision Technologies for Deceptive C... The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against IntelliVision Technologies C... |
| 12/02 | FTC Order Requires Online Retailer GOAT to Pay More than $2 Million... The Federal Trade Commission today announced a court order requiring GOAT, a leadi... |
| 11/27 | FTC Takes Aim at Top Fraud Driving Losses Among Older Americans The Federal Trade Commission has approved final amendments to its Telemarket... |
| 11/26 | FTC Takes Action Against Evolv Technologies for Deceiving Users Abo... The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Evolv Technologies over alle... |
| 11/26 | Smart Products Surveyed Fail to Provide Consumers with Information ... A new paper from Federal Trade Commission staff finds that nearly 89% of products ... |
| 11/21 | FTC Sends Refunds to Consumers Harmed by Credit Bureau Center’s Fak... The Federal Trade Commission is sending payments totaling nearly $1.9 million to c... |
| 11/20 | FTC Staff Issues Report on Undercover Funeral Rule Phone Sweep The staff of the Federal Trade Commission have issued a report detailing... |
Fake News & Hoaxes
| 04/30 | 2023 video authentically shows Trump announcing plans for a tuition... Trump said he would fund the American Academy by "taxing, fining, and suing excess... |
| 04/30 | Rev. William Barber II arrested by US Capitol Police for praying 'o... A video features Barber, a civil rights activist and ordained minister, and others... |
| 04/30 | Trump's photo of Abrego Garcia's tattoos was edited; no proof symbo... The U.S. president repeatedly referenced the photo as proof of Kilmar Abrego Garci... |
| 04/30 | Fact Check: Skit Video Does NOT Show Real Passenger Who Wouldn't Ge... Does a viral video on social media authentically document a passenger who threw a ... |
| 04/30 | Yes, Lindsey Graham said he supports Trump's bid for the papacy — a... Graham was reacting to a comment by the president, who said in jest he'd like to b... |
| 04/30 | Fact Check: 'Sleeping Rose Mantis' Is NOT Real Insect Do viral videos prove the existence of a creature named "Sleeping Rose Mantis" tha... |
| 04/30 | Oklahoma woman said federal agents mistakenly raided her home. Here... According to local news reports, federal agents had a warrant to search the Oklaho... |
| 04/30 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 'Pakistan F-16 Jets' Shot Down By I... Does a viral video show "Pakistan F-16 jets" shot down by India in April 2025? No,... |
| 04/30 | No, Jimmy Kimmel didn't kick Karoline Leavitt off his show after 'f... "What was supposed to be a casual late-night chat turned into a battlefield," one ... |
| 04/30 | What we know about reports Trump, RFK Jr. plan to end Narcan program Social media posts claimed the health secretary backed a White House plan to end a... |
| 04/30 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show 2025 Indian Army Attack On Sialkot,... Does video labelled on social media as "...footage of the Indian Army's attack on ... |
| 04/30 | Fact Check: Michelle Obama Did NOT Refer to Herself 'As a Black Man' Did an April 2025 video show former First Lady Michelle Obama referring to herself... |
| 04/30 | Video shows real moths convincingly disguised as twigs Buff-tip moths feed on birch, oak and hazel trees. |
| 04/30 | Fact Check: Man Was NOT Decapitated on Space Mountain in April 2025... Did a man get decapitated on Space Mountain at Walt Disney World in April 2025? No... |
| 04/30 | Fact Check: Video of Jalen Hurts at Concert Was NOT Recorded During... Was a video of Superbowl MVP Jalen Hurts enjoying a concert with his wife Bry Burr... |
| 04/30 | 12 rumors about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Yes, his mother once accused him of being an "abuser of women." No, he does not ha... |
| 04/30 | Vaseline founder Robert Chesebrough attributed his long life to ing... Some internet users claimed Chesebrough also cured himself of a lung condition by ... |
| 04/30 | Fact Check: Lindsey Graham DID Post On X About Trump Being Open To ... Did Senator Lindey Graham post on X about President Trump being open to the possib... |
| 04/29 | Yes, Trump signed order targeting Democratic fundraising platform A... The Trump administration is calling for investigations into unlawful “straw donor”... |
| 04/29 | Online images don't prove Trump fell asleep during Pope Francis' fu... The president's eyes were closed at some moments during the funeral, but so were f... |
| 04/29 | Karoline Leavitt didn't say 'Go back to Africa' to US Rep. Jasmine ... YouTube creators shared a false claim that the White House press secretary was "ca... |
| 04/29 | No evidence Canada is making its national suicide hotline available... The claim followed revelations that the Trump admin planned to eliminate specializ... |
| 04/29 | No proof Germany arrested Russian spies who had Pete Hegseth's numb... Online claims drew context and quotes from the arrest of two suspected German-Russ... |
| 04/29 | Tracking Trump’s Promises at the 100-Day Mark We look at a half dozen of Trump’s most consequential pledges – ones that he said ... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: 'The Simpsons' Did NOT Predict April 29, 2025, Will Be ... Did "The Simpsons" predict that April 29, 2025 will become "the day everything sto... |
| 04/29 | Anheuser-Busch forced to close iconic St. Louis brewery after Bud L... A rumor about Anheuser-Busch closing facilities in Missouri received thousands of ... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: 'Yellowstone Drilling' Did Not Unleash Any 150-Foot Lav... Did a drilling operation in Yellowstone National Park unleash a 150-foot lava geys... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: Canadian PM Mark Carney Did NOT Write 'Western Society ... Did Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney write "Western society is morally rotten .... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: Video of Restaurant Argument Over MAGA Hat is a Sketch Did a video shared in April 2025 show a real argument in a restaurant, where a wom... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: Video Does NOT Authentically Show Woman's Reaction To A... Does a viral video depict a real-life scene showing a woman protesting against bei... |
| 04/29 | Trump's first 100 days: 25 rumors we've investigated Donald Trump's administration moved at breakneck speed during the first 100 days o... |
| 04/29 | Picture shows mammoth skull unearthed in Michigan farmer's field? Paleontologists theorized that the skeleton was brought to the area by ancient hum... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: FAKE Video Shows Pope Francis With 'Three Hands' Did a widely-viewed video authentically show Pope Francis in a wheelchair with thr... |
| 04/29 | Vintage magazine article depicts invention linking car brakes to a ... The invention was the subject of a short write-up in a 1965 issue of Popular Mecha... |
| 04/29 | No, 'Pawn Stars' personality Rick Harrison wasn't sentenced to life... Some videos about the claim had disclaimers noting that the information did not re... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: AI Mugshot Of Judge Hannah Dugan Crying While Wearing O... Is a mugshot showing Judge Hannah Dugan crying while wearing an orange jumpsuit au... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: No Evidence For Story About Steph Curry's Mother At Fer... Was basketball player Steph Curry's mother Sonia denied service at a Ferrari deale... |
| 04/29 | Fact Check: Staged Video Shows French Teacher Using Martial Arts Ag... Does a viral video authentically show a French teacher reacting to students bullyi... |
| 04/28 | Rumors that Trump threatened Obama with Hatch Act originated as satire Social media posts falsely claimed Trump "officially warned" Obama to "stay out of... |
| 04/28 | No evidence Stephen Curry's mother, Sonya, was 'humiliated' by Ferr... ... |
| 04/28 | Hitler quote about removing judges credited to Trump was a prank. H... Users shared the quote in April 2025 following the FBI's arrests of a Milwaukee ju... |
| 04/28 | Yes, Virginia Giuffre, Jeffrey Epstein accuser, posted she was not ... The family of Giuffre, who also accused Prince Andrew in a sex-trafficking scandal... |
| 04/28 | Don't fall for heartwarming — but fake — story about Pope Francis' ... Multiple AI-generated YouTube videos made up a tall tale to tug at the heartstring... |
| 04/28 | Trump's blue funeral suit caused uproar. Here's what we know about ... The U.S. president wore a blue suit, blue tie and American flag lapel pin to the f... |
| 04/28 | RFK Jr. Misleads on Autism Prevalence, Causes In announcing new autism prevalence data from the Centers for Disease Control and ... |
| 04/28 | Fact Check: Videos About 'Pope Francis' Dog' Are NOT Authentic News... Did Pope Francis' dog "refuse to leave his grave"? No, that's not true: None of th... |
| 04/28 | Fact Check: 'Mugshot' Of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan In Grey Polo ... Is a mugshot showing Judge Hannah Dugan in a grey polo shirt in front of a height ... |
| 04/28 | Photographers snapped Pope Francis riding subway — just not in 1998 At the time, he was known simply as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio. |
| 04/28 | Fact Check: FAKE Photo Shows Many Pope Francis Mourners, Not Just T... Did an authentic photograph show several mourners wearing blue attire at the funer... |
| 04/28 | Family of woman photographed in 1944 allegedly writing thank-you no... Snopes learned more information about the decades-old picture after contacting two... |
Cybersecurity News
| 09/24 | Sixth PQC Standardization Conference FULL CONFERENCE DETAILS NIST plans to hold the 6th PQC Standardization Conference ... |
| 08/14 | NIST Small Business Cybersecurity Webinar: Protecting Your Small Bu... Phishing is one of the most common types of cyber crime. These scams use convincin... |
| 06/26 | Iris Experts Group (IEG) Annual Meeting The Iris Experts Group is a forum for the discussion of technical questions of int... |
| 05/20 | CSF 2.0 Webinar Series: Deep-Dive into the CSF 2.0 Govern Function ... One of the major updates to CSF 2.0 is the creation of the Govern Function, highli... |
| 05/07 | 5th High-Performance Computing Security Workshop High-performance computing (HPC) systems provide fundamental computing infrastruct... |
| 04/30 | Threat Level - GUARDED On April 30, the Cyber Threat Alert Level was evaluated and is remaining at Blue (... |
| 04/29 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products Could Allow for Arbitr... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla products, the most severe... |
| 04/28 | 10 Things Organizations Should Know About AI Workforce Development This post outlines 10 recommendations developed in response to work with our missi... |
| 04/25 | A Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer Could Allow for Re... A vulnerability has been discovered in SAP NetWeaver Visual Composer, which could ... |
| 04/23 | Top 10 Malware Q1 2025 In Q1 2025, the Top 10 Malware observed via the MS-ISAC® changed slightly from the... |
| 04/23 | CISA, DHS S&T, INL, LSU Help Energy Industry Partners Strengthen In... |
| 04/23 | Statement from Matt Hartman on the CVE Program |
| 04/23 | A Vulnerability in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 Series ... A vulnerability has been discovered in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 Ma... |
| 04/21 | DataOps: Towards More Reliable Machine Learning Systems Decisions based on ML models can have significant consequences, and managing the r... |
| 04/18 | Oracle Quarterly Critical Patches Issued April 15, 2025 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oracle products, which could allo... |
| 04/18 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Apple Products Could Allow for Arbitrar... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apple products, the most severe o... |
| 04/16 | Hacktivist Group DieNet Claims DDoS Attacks against U.S. CNI DieNet is a hacktivist group that's claimed DDoS attacks against U.S. critical inf... |
| 04/16 | CISA Statement on CVE Program |
| 04/14 | NIST Updates Privacy Framework, Tying It to Recent Cybersecurity Gu... Targeted changes to content and structure respond to stakeholder needs and make th... |
| 04/08 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Fortinet Products Could Allow for Remot... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered Fortinet Products, the most severe o... |
| 04/08 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Adobe Products Could Allow for Arbitrar... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Adobe products, the most severe o... |
| 04/08 | A Vulnerability in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Exe... A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome, which could allow for arbitr... |
| 04/08 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Could Allow for... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Ivanti Endpoint Manager, the most... |
| 04/08 | Critical Patches Issued for Microsoft Products, April 8, 2025 Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Microsoft products, the most seve... |
| 04/08 | CIS Benchmarks April 2025 Update Here is an overview of the CIS Benchmarks that the Center for Internet Security (C... |
| 04/08 | Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit The Open Industrial Digital Ecosystem Summit is an annual event bringing together ... |
| 04/07 | FFIEC CAT Sunset: What You Need to Know How are you preparing for the sunset of the FFIEC CAT? Read on to learn how anothe... |
| 04/07 | Evaluating LLMs for Text Summarization: An Introduction Deploying LLMs without human supervision and evaluation can lead to significant er... |
| 04/03 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in Mozilla Products Could Allow for Arbitr... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mozilla products, the most severe... |
| 04/03 | A Vulnerability in Ivanti Products Could Allow for Remote Code Exec... A Vulnerability has been discovered in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and Z... |
| 04/03 | CISA and Partners Issue Fast Flux Cybersecurity Advisory |
| 04/03 | Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM AIX could allow for arbitrary code ... Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in IBM AIX, the most severe of which... |
| 04/01 | Fast Flux: A National Security Threat Executive summary Many networks have a gap in their defenses for detecting and blo... |
| 04/01 | April is Emergency Communications Month! |
| 04/01 | Building Resilient ICT Supply Chains: 8th Annual Supply Chain Inte... |
| 03/31 | SAFECOM Publishes Fall 2024 SAFECOM Bi-Annual Meeting Executive Sum... |
| 03/28 | A Vulnerability in CrushFTP Could Allow for Unauthorized Access A vulnerability has been discovered in CrushFTP, which could allow for unauthorize... |
| 03/26 | A Vulnerability in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Exe... A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome, which could allow for arbitr... |
| 03/26 | The Essential Role of AISIRT in Flaw and Vulnerability Management The SEI established the first Artificial Intelligence Security Incident Response T... |
| 03/25 | macOS Security Compliance Project Developer Conference The National Institute of Standards and Technology will host a developer conferenc... |
| 03/24 | DeepSeek: A New Player in the Global AI Race CIS analysts break down the rise of DeepSeek, a GenAI model that collects data and... |
| 03/24 | Enhancing Machine Learning Assurance with Portend This post introduces Portend, a new open source toolset that simulates data drift ... |
| 03/21 | A Vulnerability in Google Chrome Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Exe... A vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chrome, which could allow for arbitr... |
| 03/21 | A Vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication Could Allow for Arbit... A vulnerability has been discovered in Veeam Backup & Replication, which could all... |
| 03/20 | Active Lumma Stealer Campaign Impacting U.S. SLTTs The CIS CTI team spotted a Lumma Stealer campaign where SLTT victims were redirect... |
| 03/20 | CSF 2.0 Webinar Series: Implementing CSF 2.0—The Why, What, and How To address the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape and equip organizations with ... |
| 03/20 | A Vulnerability in AMI MegaRAC Software Could Allow for Remote Code... A vulnerability has been discovered in AMI MegaRAC Software, which could allow for... |
| 03/20 | Cybersecurity of Logistics Decision Models Goods, services, and people simply cannot get to where they are needed without eff... |
| 03/18 | A Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat Could Allow for Remote Code Execution A vulnerability has been discovered in Apache Tomcat, which could allow for remote... |
| 03/18 | CISA Probationary Reinstatements |