Cybersecurity

How the application ‘XHelper’ is powering the Indian money-laundering gig economy

Cybercriminals are using a massive network of hired mules in India and an Android-based money transfer application to launder illicit proceeds, researchers have found. According to an investigation by the Singapore-based cybersecurity company CloudSEK, the money mules — who are recruited to receive and then quickly transfer funds to obscure their origin — are managed […]

Cybersecurity

President Biden Blocks Mass Transfer of Personal Data to High-Risk Nations

U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an Executive Order that prohibits the mass transfer of citizens’ personal data to countries of concern. The Executive Order also “provides safeguards around other activities that can give those countries access to Americans’ sensitive data,” the White House said in a statement. This includes sensitive information such as genomic […]