Tag: fbi

January 19, 2024

A pair of top House Republicans are calling for the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to brief Congress on ongoing federal probes into the popular Chinese social media platform TikTok. The Republican lawmakers — House Homeland Security Committee […]

January 17, 2024

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published an urgent advisory about the Androxgh0st botnet, which is being used to steal cloud credentials from major platforms, including AWS, SendGrid, and Microsoft Office 365. […]

November 29, 2023

Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa (MWAA), a water utility in the state of Pennsylvania, has entered a federal and state investigation after a breach in one of its equipment by pro-Iran hacking group Cyber Av3ngers. On Friday, the attackers breached […]

June 30, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Senators Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson are raising new questions about a 2020 FBI briefing in which the agency said the senators’ investigation into Hunter Biden was advancing Russian disinformation at a time the FBI was looking into some […]

June 28, 2023

The U.S. Attorney who led the federal investigation into Hunter Biden was “briefed” on the key FBI form that contained allegations that then-Vice President Joe Biden and a foreign national were engaged in a criminal bribery scheme that involved influence […]

February 14, 2023

Virginia lawmakers are making a final pitch to the Biden administration to bring a new FBI headquarters to the state. Sens. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) joined Virginia’s Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin and most of the state’s House […]

February 13, 2023

Organizations in the US healthcare and public health sector are among the top targets for state-sponsored North Korean cyber-threat actors seeking to fund espionage activities via ransomware and other attacks. That’s the assessment of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security […]

January 27, 2023

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) along with international partners have taken down the Hive ransomware group. The operation that began in July 2022 resulted in the FBI penetrating Hive’s computer networks, capturing its decryption keys, and offering them to […]

November 16, 2022

Iranian government-sponsored hackers were able to exploit an unaddressed vulnerability in a federal agency’s network to compromise users’ credentials and install cryptocurrency mining software on its system, according to a joint cybersecurity advisory released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security […]

August 30, 2022

Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., are calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to turn over communications between government agencies and Facebook employees regarding Hunter Biden after Zuckerberg admitted that his company censored news articles about the president’s […]

May 26, 2022

On Thursday, Senate Republicans are set to block legislation intended to combat domestic terrorism. And they’re all over the place on whether homegrown extremism even needs more federal attention. In the wake of a recent racist shooting in Buffalo, N.Y., […]

May 19, 2022

The star prosecution witness in the trial of a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer testified Thursday that he was “100 percent confident” that the attorney told him he was not acting on behalf of a particular client when he presented information […]

May 18, 2022

Cyber attackers regularly exploit unpatched software vulnerabilities, but they “routinely” target security misconfigurations for initial access, so the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its peers have created a to-do list for defenders in today’s heightened threat environment. […]

April 26, 2022

As the cyber dimension of the Ukraine conflict erupted, demonstrating the ungoverned and unstable nature of full-on cyberwar, a parallel ransomware alert from the US government got comparatively scant coverage. But it, too, merits attention. The alert served as a […]

March 28, 2022

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Energy (DOE) have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) on two intrusion campaigns conducted by state-sponsored Russian cyber actors against U.S. and […]

March 21, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI acknowledged providers and customers of U.S. satellite networks may be in Russia’s crosshairs as the conflict over Ukraine’s sovereignty continues. In an alert Thursday, the agencies said they “are aware of […]

January 31, 2022

The prosecutor who’s investigating whether Donald Trump and others broke the law by trying to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential election victory is asking the FBI for security help after the former president railed against prosecutors investigating […]

January 14, 2022

Days after the head of the troubled federal Bureau of Prisons said he was resigning amid increased scrutiny over his leadership, lawmakers have introduced a bill to require Senate confirmation for future bureau directors — the same process used to […]

November 23, 2021

Ahead of Thanksgiving this Thursday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) and the FBI have released a warning for critical infrastructure providers to stay vigilant on holidays and weekends, because hackers don’t plan on taking a holiday break. The […]

November 8, 2021

The Supreme Court is preparing to hear a case about the government’s ability to get lawsuits thrown out of court by claiming they would reveal secrets that threaten national security. The case before the high court Monday involves a group […]