The Russian government’s Sunburst cyberattack on SolarWinds in 2020 was “of previously unseen scope and sophistication.” Yet three years later, the SEC now accuses SolarWinds -- the victim of that nation-state attack -- of securities fraud, said BSA | The Software Alliance in an amicus brief Friday (docket 1:23-cv-09518) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. The brief is in support of SolarWinds’ Jan. 26 motion to dismiss the SEC’s complaint against the company and Tim Brown, its chief information security officer (see 2401290033).

Meta’s claim that the removal protections of FTC commissioners are unconstitutional is “foreclosed” by the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. U.S., according to the FTC’s response Thursday (docket 1:23-cv-03562) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to Meta’s Jan. 25 sur-reply in opposition to the commission’s motion to dismiss.

HyperFund, pitched as a “decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem” for cryptocurrency asset market participants, was a $1.7 billion “pyramid and Ponzi scheme,” alleged the SEC in a complaint Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00296) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore. Defendants in the lawsuit are Xue Samuel Lee, an Australian national residing in Dubai, and Brenda Chunga, who lived in Severna Park, Maryland, during the relevant period, it said.

The U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington in Richland should deny Barbara and Everett Knudson's motion to intervene on the side of Walla Walla, Washington, in the city’s cell tower dispute with AT&T (see 2401170024), said AT&T’s opposition Tuesday (docket 4:23-cv-05162).

Comcast requested Wednesday that In Re: Citrix Software Customer Data Security Breach Litigation be renamed "In Re: Citrix Bleed Vulnerability And Comcast Breach Litigation" to "accurately reflect the parties and issues,” in a motion (docket 3099) for miscellaneous relief before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML). Comcast also wrote in opposition to a de facto motion for miscellaneous relief filed by Citrix in its response to a motion for transfer.

VoIP provider Bandwidth played a “material role” in a scheme to steal money from plaintiff Don Gissell in a “love scam” involving co-defendant Jane Doe, alleged Gissell's fraud complaint Wednesday (docket 1:24-cv-20399) in U.S. District Court for Southern Florida in Miami.

Mr. Cooper told customers in November that it disabled its payment portal and other “critical IT systems” due to a “system/technical outage,” but its systems were actually “infiltrated by a cyberattack,” alleged a class action Wednesday (docket 3:24-cv-00247) in U.S. District Court for Northern Texas in Dallas.

The FCC’s Nov. 20 order, published Jan. 22 in the Federal Register, purports to implement congressional “instruction” to facilitate equal broadband access under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, but it gives the commission “unprecedented authority to regulate the broadband internet economy,” said the Ohio Telecom Association’s (OTA) petition for review Tuesday (docket 24-3072) in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Four more class actions -- three against Progress Software Corp. (PSC) and one against Health Care Service Corp. -- were transferred to In Re: MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation in conditional transfer order 28 (CTO-28), said a Wednesday Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation clerk order. The order is stayed seven days from entry to allow any party to file a notice of opposition, it said.

NBCUniversal and Peacock TV reproduced, distributed and publicly performed Kazimir Boyle’s creative works and failed to account for profits and mechanical and performance royalties, alleged Boyle's copyright complaint Monday (docket 1:24-cv-00758) in U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois in Chicago.