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The Treasury Department's sanctions arm has expanded its crackdown on Prince Group, adding forty-five new targets to its list — offshore companies and individuals it says helped the alleged crypto scam network's executives conceal assets and sidestep earlier penalties. It's a sign that regulators are increasingly willing to pursue the full financial architecture behind these operations, not just the names at the top.
Shifting to a regulatory collision that's getting complicated fast — the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has told licensed prediction market exchanges they cannot restrict access to customers based on what state they live in. The problem is that platforms like Kalshi are already operating under court orders that require exactly that kind of geographic restriction. Two authorities, two contradictory demands, and the exchanges caught squarely in between.
And on the threat landscape, security researchers are flagging a sophisticated phishing campaign that uses fake event invitations from OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX to lure corporate employees. Once clicked, attackers deploy device-code phishing and reverse proxy techniques capable of bypassing multi-factor authentication on both Microsoft and Google accounts. The lesson here is that curiosity about AI is itself becoming the vulnerability.
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