Interesting, PhantomCard, NFC-based fraude/malware.
https://www.threatfabric.com/blogs/phantomcard-new-nfc-driven-android-malware-emerging-in-brazil
#malware #fraud #android #cybersecurity #phantomcard
WOAH
a 1st-year PhD student at the 1st-ranked econ program in the world made national headlines last year with a paper arguing that AI accelerates scientific discovery
except it was a massive #FRAUD
MIT said it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
#AI #lies #economics #misconduct #MIT https://substack.com/home/post/p-169280076
South Korean entrepreneur Do Kwon has pleaded guilty to U.S. fraud charges for his role in two cryptocurrencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/08/13/tech/do-kwon-guilty-us-fraud-crypto/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #dokwon #southkorea #cryptocurrencies #us #fraud
Do Kwon to plead guilty in $40B crypto collapse https://www.byteseu.com/1280209/ #business #Crypto #CryptoCurrency #Fraud #SecuritiesAndExchangeCommission #TECH #trials #WallStreet
Imagine this: you prepare a presentation to showcase your great new product version that's cost a billion USD to make. You prepare your presentation for ages. The result?
You show bullshit charts where bars that represent 30% and 58% are equally high; you wheel in pictures of bicycles that have three wheels; you show zebras with five legs...
You'd be sacked for doing that. Actually, OpenAI did that during their presentation of Chat-GPT 5 a short while back.
To quote Gary Marcus:
'By rights, Altman’s reputation should by now be completely burned. This is a man who joked in September 2023 that “AGI has been achieved internally”, told us in January of this year in his blog that “We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”. Just two days ago he hold us that as quoted above) interacting with GPT-5 we “like talking to … legitimate PhD level expert in anything”. In hindsight, that was all bullshit.And the worst part? Altman brought it all on himself. Had he not kept hinting at the moon, people might have been fine with just another incremental update.' - https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming
https://www.europesays.com/2320220/ The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns #america #DISINFORMATION #fraud #research #science #ScientificResearch #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
SANS Internet Storm Center: Google Paid Ads for Fake Tesla Websites. “These are sponsored listings. The official Tesla site (without the preorder option) shows below these fake links. We have often seen sponsored listings like this used to advertise malware. But in this case, I suspect, the goal is simply to steal money from people willing to pay for preorders. The interesting twist is that the […]
Retraction Watch: Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says. “Systematic research fraud has outpaced corrective measures and will only keep accelerating, according to a study of problematic publishing practices and the networks that fuel them.”
By rights, Altman’s reputation should by now be completely burned. This is a man who joked in September 2023 that “AGI has been achieved internally”, told us in January of this year in his blog that “We are now confident we know how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”. Just two days ago he hold us that as quoted above) interacting with GPT-5 we “like talking to … legitimate PhD level expert in anything”.
#AI #technology #AGI #OpenAI #fraud
https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhelming
I assume the move here is to leverage the fact that churches are tax-free donation targets but can now be involved in overt politicial language and endorsements. So my DAF can send money to a church that I know will endorse a political candidate of my choosing. Regulatory arbitrage! #politics #elections #fraud
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/114970619667614175
Another example of the enshitification of Amazon: a 1TB SSD is advertised for $49. It is actually $163, and if you’re not vigilant, you end up getting something else.
#enshitification #amazon #fraud
Ars Technica: Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it. “In June, Google said it unearthed a campaign that was mass-compromising accounts belonging to customers of Salesforce. The means: an attacker pretending to be someone in the customer’s IT department feigning some sort of problem that required immediate access to the account. Two months later, Google has disclosed that it, […]
Fraud and lying seems to have become the norm everywhere...
Organized scientific fraud is growing at an alarming rate, study uncovers
From fabricated research to paid authorships and citations, organized scientific fraud is on the rise, according to a new Northwestern University study.
By combining large-scale data analysis of scientific literature with case studies, the researchers led a deep investigation into scientific fraud. Although concerns around scientific misconduct typically focus on lone individuals, the Northwestern study instead uncovered sophisticated global networks of individuals and entities, which systematically work together to undermine the integrity of academic publishing.
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-scientific-fraud-alarming-uncovers.html
#NYAG James’s personal lawyer, Abbe Lowell, on Friday called any investigation into #Trump’s #fraud case “the most blatant & desperate example of this administration carrying out the president’s political retribution campaign.”
“Weaponizing the Department of Justice to try to punish an elected official for doing her job is an attack on the #RuleOfLaw & a dangerous escalation by this administration,” he said.
#DOJ Subpoenas Office of #LetitiaJames
#NYAG Tish James won a civil #fraud case against #Trump that is on appeal. One of the two subpoenas is related to that case.
The #USattorney in Albany has issued 2 broad subpoenas to NYAG Letitia James, one related to her office’s civil fraud case that resulted in a half-billion dollar penalty against Trump….
#law #RevengePolitics #Tyranny #Autocracy #Authoritarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/nyregion/letitia-james-subpoena-trump-doj.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
https://www.europesays.com/2312513/ Probe into EU farm funds fraud in Greece widens – POLITICO #AntiMoneyLaundering #Balkans #corruption #Europe #FARMERS #Farms #fraud #greece #KyriakosMitsotakis #media #Payments #RuleOfLaw #SocialMedia #subsidy
Large-scale illegal wildlife shops in Laos found scamming Chinese tourists
