Danske Bank (DANSKE.CO) pleaded guilty to bank fraud conspiracy on Tuesday and agreed to forfeit $2 billion as part of an agreement with the United States to settle a long-running investigation involving billions of dollars in illicit payments. The accord with the Justice Department marks the first time the United States has taken action against…
The European Parliament removed Greek MEP Eva Kaili as a vice president of the assembly on Tuesday after she was accused of accepting bribes from Qatar in one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit Brussels. Kaili has denied any wrongdoing, but European lawmakers have acted rapidly to isolate her, worrying that the Belgian investigation…
Greek police raided the Athens offices of the Israeli company behind the Predator spyware on Tuesday, local media reported, the latest turn of events in a months-long wiretapping affair that has rocked Greece over the past several months. The offices of Intellexa, the Israeli-owned spyware company, and five other firms were raided by police in…
Buckle up: The second season of the Netflix reality series My Unorthodox Life is a bumpy ride. Since the show premiered on the streaming platform last year, a great deal has changed in the Haart family. When season one wrapped, family matriarch Julia Haart was happily married to her second husband, Silvio Scaglia, and was CEO and…
The National Security Agency said on Tuesday that Chinese state-backed hackers are exploiting a flaw in a widely used networking device that allows an attacker to carry out remote code execution. In its advisory, the NSA said it believes a Chinese hacking crew known as APT5 “has demonstrated capabilities” against an application delivery controller made…
Hyderabad: In this digital world, it has become necessary to protect your data and privacy from hackers on unknown persons. According to a report by Cybernews, a research-based online publication, released in November, said the data of 500 million WhatsApp users was put for sale by an unknown seller on a hacking community forum. However,…
Lifezone Metals, which plans to mine nickel in Tanzania with a low carbon footprint, will list in New York in a deal with blank-check acquisition firm GoGreen Investments , the companies said on Tuesday. Lifezone Metals, valued by the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal at around $1 billion, owns the Kabanga Nickel mine and…
The Bahamas wants the US government to give back 35 different properties that are valued at more than $256 million that were purchased by Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange FTX before it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month. Attorneys representing the Bahamian government told a federal bankruptcy judge in Delaware that Bankman-Fried and Ryan…
Fallen FTX mogul Sam Bankman-Fried brought up his vegan diet and apparent ADD diagnosis as he begged a Bahamas judge to let him out of jail on Tuesday — with his attorney proposing a $250,000 cash bail to no avail, according to reports. A magistrate judge in the Bahamas denied bail for the 30-year-old accused…