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Dallas police crime data back online – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

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Dallas Police crime numbers are back online for the first time since a ransomware attack crippled city computers in May. The numbers show homicide is up 10% so far this year with 150 reported as of Wednesday morning.

But that’s less than the 20% homicide was up in May. And overall, Dallas’s violent crime keeps falling according to the new report.

But some families still face grief.

People who loved her are mourning the July 20 death of 22-year-old Lusero Guzman.

One of her closest friends, Marisol, who did not want her last name used, said she was on the phone with Lusero during one of many fights with Lusero’s boyfriend, who was also the father of her children.

“And the next call I received, it was her phone but his voice saying I shot her. And she’s dead. And I was in shock,” Marisol said.

Police charged 29-year-old Eric Thomas with the murder.

“It’s just hard, hard to lose someone like that, especially so young, and her kids so young,” Marisol said.

The most recent Dallas homicide was around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday night on East Illinois Avenue.

A man with a gunshot wound was taken to a hospital where he died.  The victim’s name was not available Wednesday as police looked for the shooter.

Dallas City Council Member Cara Mendelsohn serves on committees that deal with city information technology and with police.

“We still have a lot of shootings so even though those numbers are down, they need to go down further,” Mendelsohn said.

Police officials said reports that stacked up since the ransomware attack have not been entered to produce the updated data.

On May 16th, Chief Eddie Garcia warned that the lack of current data hurt crime fighting.

“To be honest with you it’s problematic. It’s severely impacting our ability to plan for what we’re trying to do. So, we’re going off historical data,” Garcia said.

Now the report shows overall violent crime is down 11% on top of reductions last year.  It suggests police had success without the constant flow of data.

Mendelsohn said citizens also appreciate the data.

“It’s always nice when you show a report where crime is way down so I think we’re all happy to see…

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Crypto crime declines, but ransomware is on the rise

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The report claims that almost every crypto-related crime is down this year, but ransomware is growing thanks to more successful attacks and a rise in ‘big-game hunting’.

Cryptocurrency-related crime appears to be down significantly compared to last year, according to a new report by Chainalysis.

The blockchain analysis company’s report suggests that illicit activities related to crypto is down by 65pc compared to the same period last year, while deposits made to “risky” entities are down by 42pc.

Chainalysis noted that transaction volumes are down “across the board” but this decline is less severe for legitimate services at 28pc.

“In other words, there’s been a market pullback, but illicit crypto transaction volume is falling much more than legitimate crypto transaction volume,” the company said.

This follows a particularly crime-riddled year for the sector, as a report in January suggested that the level of crypto-based illegal activity in 2022 was the highest on record, with $20.1bn in illegal transactions reported. That report did not include the transaction volumes of several large firms that collapsed last year, including FTX, Celsius and Three Arrows Capital.

Scams take a major hit

In the latest report, Chainalysis said nearly every category of crypto crime is down so far in 2023, but added that scams have dropped the most.

So far this year, crypto scammers took nearly $3.3bn less in 2023 than they did in 2022, a decline of 77pc. The report claims the total amount crypto scams have earned so far in 2023 is just over $1bn.

Chainalyisis claims that scams are “nearly always” the highest-revenue form of crypto-based crime and believes the drop is linked to the disappearance of “two large-scale scams”. The report claims these scams were VidiLook and Chia Tai Tianqing Pharmaceutical Financial Management.

Ransomware on the rise

The only crypto-related crime that looks set to grow this year is ransomware, according to the report.

Chainalysis claims ransomware attackers have extorted $175.8m more this year than they did by the same time in 2022. This also suggests a reversal of the “positive downward ransomware…

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Home ministry to host 2-day G20 meet on crime, security in age of NFTs, AI, Metaverse, ET Telecom

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<p>The conference will bring together G20 countries, guests from the invitee nations and international bodies.</p>
The conference will bring together G20 countries, guests from the invitee nations and international bodies.

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs will organise the “G20 Conference on Crime and Security in the Age of Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Metaverse” on July 13-14 in Gurugram.The two-day event is being organised in partnership with the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Ministry of External Affairs, National Security Council Secretariat and the Central Bureau of Investigation.

The Rashtriya Raksha University, National Forensic Science University, National Law School of India University, Interpol and UNODC are the event’s organising partners.

“The MHA will host the ‘G20 Conference on Crime and Security in the Age of NFTs, AI and Metaverse’ on July 13-14. It will bring together G20 countries, nine special invitee countries and domain experts (from) around the world to delve into the challenges of advancing technologies,” a Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) spokesperson said.

The conference will bring together G20 countries, guests from the invitee nations and international bodies.

NFTs are assets that have been tokenised via a blockchain. These are assigned unique identification codes and metadata to distinguish these from other tokens. NFTs can be traded and exchanged for money or cryptocurrency.

AI is a rapidly growing field of technology that has already made significant contributions to industries such as health care, finance and transportation. AI has recently emerged as a critical component in the development of the Metaverse — a virtual world where people can interact with each other and digital entities in a fully immersive environment.

According to the officials, the conference will see the participation of ministries and central government organisations, chief secretaries and administrators of states and Union Territories, directors general of police of states and Union Territories and cyber experts.

Guest speakers from the legal fraternity, academia, training institutions, financial intermediaries, fintech, social media intermediaries, information and…

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