Sentences with phrase «cyber fraud unit»
The Securities and Exchange Commission launched a new cyber fraud unit earlier this year amid the internet's ongoing Bitcoin boom, seemingly telegraphing its intent to crack down on a cryptocurrency market rife with hacking, fraud, and scams.
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The crackdown on PlexCoin represents the first decisive action taken by the security regulator's new cyber fraud unit, but is part of a much wider agenda to regulate ICOs.
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The United States has a cyber unit within the SEC, and the unit recently shut down the ICO of a company called PlexCorps for alleged fraud.
The SEC let tech companies know they were getting serious about digital securities fraud when it created its cyber unit which is wholly dedicated to the investigation and prosecution of ICO's and blockchain related companies.
The new Cyber Unit was launched by the SEC in September to focus on problems like ICO fraud, «misconduct» on the dark web, hacks aimed at stealing nonpublic information, intrusions into retail brokerage accounts, market manipulation schemes involving «false information spread through electronic and social media,» and cyber threats to market infrastructure like trading platform.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday announced that its new cyber unit filed charges alleging initial coin offering (ICO) fraud.
The recently formed cyber unit of the United States Security and Exchange Commission filed its first charges Monday after obtaining an emergency asset freeze to stop an alleged Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraud.