Money laundering is the process of disguising criminal proceeds and may include the movement of clean money through the United States with the intent to commit a crime in the future (e.g., terrorism). Common methods include disguising the source of the proceeds; changing the form of the proceeds; or moving the proceeds to a place where the proceeds are less likely to attract attention. The object of money laundering is ultimately to get the proceeds back to the individual who generated them. Money laundering is a necessary consequence of almost all profit generating crimes and can occur almost anywhere in the world. Money laundering is a threat to the United States tax system in that taxable illegal source proceeds go undetected along with some taxable legal source proceeds from tax evasion schemes. Both schemes use nominees, currency, multiple bank accounts, wire transfers, and international "tax havens" to avoid detection. This untaxed underground economy ultimately erodes public confidence in the tax system.
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The National Money Laundering Strategy, established by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, describes the goals, objectives and priorities for combating money laundering, terrorism and related financial crimes. Tax and money laundering violations are closely related and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has used the money laundering statutes to combat tax evasion.
Criminal Investigation (CI) enforces the money laundering statutes relative to legal source income tax crimes (i.e., abusive trusts, offshore tax evasion schemes and corporate evasion schemes); large scale narcotics crimes (through the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) program); and non-narcotics illegal income tax crimes (i.e., illegal gambling and bankruptcy fraud). Criminal Investigation is also responsible for enforcing the BSA statutes under Title 31. Bank Secrecy Act information includes Currency Transaction Reports (CTR), and Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), Reports of Cash Payments Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business (Form 8300), Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBAR), Registration of Money Services Business (RMSB) and Report of International Transportation of Currency and Monetary Instrument (CMIR). The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) in Title 26 also contains reporting requirements on a Form 8300, Report of Cash Payments Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business. Money laundering activity may violate 18 USC 1956, 18 USC 1957, 18 USC 1960, and provisions of Title 31, and 26 USC 6050I of the United States Code (USC). This section will discuss only those money laundering and currency violations under the jurisdiction of IRS, CI. These include:
The terms conducts, monetary instrument and financial institution have the same meaning under 18 USC 1957 as under 18 USC 1956. See subsections 9.5.5.2.1.5.4, 9.5.5.2.1.5.8 and 9.5.5.2.1.5.9, respectively.
In cases where legal source income is involved in alleged structuring activity, consideration should be given to initiating a Title 26 criminal tax investigation. In certain circumstances, the structuring activity can be treated as an affirmative act of evasion under 26 USC 7201, evidence of willfulness, an overt act of conspiracy under 18 USC 371, or it may support Title 31 violations.
Microsoft 365 also added integration with the Windows platform Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) to scan Excel 4.0 macros, helping to further defeat obfuscation and evasion that an attacker may employ.
Here we characterized biological parameters extracted from a prospective neoadjuvant study that collected detailed pre-therapy tumour multi-omic data and associated these with eventual response. We found that malignant cell, immune activation and evasion features were associated with treatment response. These features, derived from clinicopathological variables, digital pathology and DNA and RNA sequencing, were used as input into an ensemble machine learning approach to generate predictive models. We validated the accuracy of the predictive models in independent, external cohorts and demonstrated that the best performers integrated clinicopathological and molecular data. The overall approach is widely applicable to other cancers and can be customized to include both fewer and newer features.
We explored the importance of the features used in the integrated training model and found that it used clinical phenotypes in combination with DNA, RNA and digital pathology features. The dominant features were age, lymphocyte density, and expression of PGR, ESR1 and ERBB2 (Fig. 4b, Extended Data Fig. 9b, Supplementary Table 6). In addition, the predictive model also used features associated with proliferation, immune activation and immune evasion. The fully integrated model relied on features obtained from all modalities of data, with RNA features having the largest contribution (Fig. 4b, Extended Data Fig. 9b).
By contrast, a suppressed immune response in naive tumours associated with a propensity for poor response. HLA LOH was first implicated in immune evasion in lung cancer21 and we show here that it predicts poor response to therapy. T cell dysfunction46 and exclusion47 showed similar effects. The similarity of features predicting response to cytotoxic therapy compared with those reported to predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors48 raises the intriguing possibility that similar mechanisms of killing tumour cells are engaged.
Genome binning and segmentation on low-pass sWGS data were performed using the R package QDNAseq (version 1.24)56. Binning was performed across 100-kb windows and counts corrected for GC-rich regions as well as poorly mappable regions. sWGS data from normal tissues were used to correct for technical and germline artefacts. Segmentation was performed using the circular binary segmentation algorithm implemented in the R package DNAcopy (version 1.60)57. Parental copy number quantification and estimation of tumour purity and ploidy were obtained using ASCAT (version 2.5.1)58 using log ratios derived from QDNAseq and germline single-nucleotide polymorphisms obtained from HaplotypeCaller as input. As recommended by the authors, the technology parameter gamma was set to 1 for WES data.
Researchers from the DevOps firm JFrog has found at least 17 malicious packages on the open source npm Registry for JavaScript. The names of the packages are: prerequests-xcode (version 1.0.4), discord-selfbot-v14 (version 12.0.3), discord-lofy (version 11.5.1), discordsystem (version 11.5.1), discord-vilao (version 1.0.0), fix-error (version 1.0.0), wafer-bind (version 1.1.2), waferautocomplete (version 1.25.0), wafer-beacon (version 1.3.3), wafer-caas (version 1.14.20), wafer-toggle (version 1.15.4), wafer-geolocation (version 1.2.10), wafer-image (version 1.2.2), wafer-form (version 1.30.1), wafer-lightbox (version 1.5.4), octavius-public (version 1.836.609), and mrg-message-broker (version 9998.987.376). These packages were found to contain malicious code capable of backdoor or infostealing functionality. Discord servers, which are often abused by threat actors, were used for command and control servers.Analyst Comment: Open-source code repositories can be valuable in numerous, different workflows, however, the documentation of these usages must be properly documented. This will allow proactive measures to be taken should an incident arise such as this. Your company will have proper internal telemetry in place to track which systems may have downloaded a malicious package, and begin the removal process.MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Obfuscated Files or Information - T1027 [MITRE ATT&CK] Lateral Tool Transfer - T1570 [MITRE ATT&CK] Resource Hijacking - T1496Tags: Malicious packages, npm Registry, Backdoor, Infostealing, Discord
bpo-35941: enum_certificates function of the ssl module now returnscertificates from all available certificate stores inside windows in aquery instead of returning only certificates from the system widecertificate store. This includes certificates from these certificatestores: local machine, local machine enterprise, local machine grouppolicy, current user, current user group policy, services, users.ssl.enum_crls() function is changed in the same way to return allcertificate revocation lists inside the windows certificate revocationlist stores.
bpo-33664: Scroll IDLE editor text by lines. Previously, the mouse wheeland scrollbar slider moved text by a fixed number of pixels, resulting inpartial lines at the top of the editor box. The change also applies tothe shell and grep output windows, but not to read-only text views.
bpo-31488: IDLE - Update non-key options in former extension classes. Whenapplying configdialog changes, call .reload for each feature class. ChangeParenMatch so updated options affect existing instances attached toexisting editor windows. 2ff7e9595c