WASHINGTON, December 13, 2023—The Federal Communications Commission today adopted new rules to further protect consumers from scam communications by directly addressing some of the biggest vulnerabilities in America’s robotext defenses and closing the “lead generator” robocall/robotexts loophole.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), as receiver of Signature Bridge Bank, N.A. (FDIC–Receiver), today completed one of several transactions following the marketing of the $33 billion Commercial Real Estate (CRE) loan portfolio retained in receivership after the failure of Signature Bank, New York, New York.
About 60 credit unions have recovered and brought systems back online after they experienced outages linked to the ransomware attack against Ongoing Operations, which provides disaster recovery and cloud services to credit unions.
ALBANY, NEW YORK – Two leaders of a nationwide bank fraud conspiracy have been arrested in connection with a scheme that has targeted credit unions all over the country since at least December 2021.
BOSTON — Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has announced a precedent setting settlement, via an assurance of discontinuance (AOD), with the “PropTech” company EasyKnock, for engaging in an unlawful sale-leaseback scheme. The settlement resolves allegations that the company engaged in an unfair and deceptive equity-skimming scheme that involved purchasing the homes of cash-strapped consumers at bargain-basement prices and then renting them back to the consumers, at times for unfair rents.