With the rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and a worldwide hacking binge, 2024 is shaping up to be a total nightmare, according to a U.S. magazine studying technology and its consequences on society.

The U.S., U.K., and Canada imposed sanctions on Thursday against Lebanon’s former central bank governor, Riad Salame, and three of his associates for embezzling US$300 million from the central bank during his tenure.

The United Kingdom announced that it has sanctioned Putin’s foreign military suppliers with the aim of damaging Russia’s war machine.

The United States administration sanctioned three Malian government and military officials for aiding the deployment and expansion of the notorious Russian mercenary Wagner Group's operations in Mali.

Just hours after Kyrgyzstan’s head of national security declared on Thursday that no company in his country has violated U.S. sanctions against Russia, the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions against four Kyrgyz firms for doing exactly that.

A Russian national, alleged to be an FSB Colonel,wasarraigned Friday in U.S. court following his arrest in Estonia on charges of procuring advanced military hardware for Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine.

The United States sanctioned an additional 10 individuals and entities linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most dangerous drug trafficking organizations and a top offender in the sale of the deadly opioid known as fentanyl.

The United States sanctioned the pro-Russian head of Serbia's State Security and Information Agency (BIA) on Tuesday, accusing him of corruption and actions that "facilitate Russian malign activities in Serbia and the region."

Of the US$1.2 trillion in relief loans issued to American small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly $200 billion was claimed under fraudulent circumstances, according to a federal watchdog report.

The United States government announced on Tuesday new sanctions against four companies and one individual due to their alleged links to the notorious Russian mercenary group PMC Wagner and its founder and owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Friday two Russian intelligence officers for their role in the Kremlin’s longstanding attempts to manipulate elections in the United States and Europe.

Swedbank Latvia has agreed to pay over US$3.4 million to settle accusations of breaching U.S. Crimea sanctions, according to a statement released on Tuesday by the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Microsoft Corporation has agreed to pay a US$20 million civil penalty as part of a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for violating children’s online privacy using Microsoft’s Xbox Live service.

A man tied to the Feeding Our Future fraud schemepleaded guilty Tuesday to money laundering and wire fraud, tying up one of the 47 cases that defrauded America’s hungry children ofUS$250 million during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Federal prosecutors in Fresnosaid Monday that two individuals connected to California gangs have been sentenced to years in prison related to charges of drug sales and unlawful possession of an automatic weapon.

Aside from losing over 1.13 million people to COVID-19, the United States is thought to have lost billions of dollars in pandemic relief fund fraud, according to the most recentAssociated Press analysis, published on Monday.

Two human rights groups have invited policymakers, journalists and analysts to a screening in Washington of a BBC documentary critical of Narendra Modi just prior to the Indian prime minister’s state visit to the White House next week.

The U.S. government charged two Russian nationals Friday in the alleged 2011 theft of647,000 bitcoins, which in today’s market would net more than US$16 billion.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned members of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), for their alleged involvement in various criminal activities including trafficking high-caliber firearms and stolen fuel from the United States to Mexico.

Seven members of a Russian intelligence-linked influence group weresanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for their attempts to destabilize the government of Moldova.