{"id":14177,"date":"2025-02-20T17:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=14177"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:32:06","slug":"sec-scales-back-crypto-enforcement-expands-focus-to-cyber-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=14177","title":{"rendered":"SEC Scales Back Crypto Enforcement, Expands Focus To Cyber Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/topic\/securities-and-exchange-commission-sec\">U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissio<\/a>n is restructuring its enforcement approach by scaling back its cryptocurrency oversight unit and replacing it with a smaller team focused on cyber fraud and technological threats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>The newly formed division will investigate crimes involving blockchain misuse, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social media-driven financial fraud, Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-02-20\/sec-replaces-crypto-enforcement-team-with-smaller-cyber-unit\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new enforcement group will have 30 specialists, led by <strong>Laura D&#8217;Allaird<\/strong>, a former co-chief of the SEC&#8217;s cryptocurrency unit. <\/p>\n<p>This marks a significant reduction, as the new team will operate with 20 fewer staff members than the unit dedicated to cryptocurrency enforcement, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/02\/43857831\/sec-scales-back-crypto-enforcement-expands-focus-to-cyber-fraud\" alt=\"SEC\" scales back crypto enforcement expands focus to cyber fraud>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is restructuring its enforcement approach by scaling back its cryptocurrency oversight unit and replacing it with a smaller team focused on cyber fraud and technological threats. What Happened: The newly formed division will investigate crimes involving blockchain misuse, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and social media-driven financial fraud, Bloomberg reported. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-14177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}