BALTIMORE (AP) — The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation into the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge that is focused on the circumstances leading up to it and whether all federal laws were followed, according to someone familiar with the matter. The person was not authorized to discuss details of the investigation … Read more
Washington: The case against Donald Trump seemed relatively straightforward in August 2022 when FBI agents searched his Mar-a-Lago estate, with authorities citing evidence that the former president hoarded enough classified documents to fill dozens of boxes and obstructed the government’s efforts to retrieve them. But nine months after he was indicted, there are mounting doubts … Read more
AT&T said Thursday evening that a nationwide outage earlier in the day was not caused by a cyberattack, based on an initial review. “Based on our initial review, we believe the outage was caused by the application & execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack,” the … Read more
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department told Republicans last year that it would be a mistake to publicize raw paperwork reflecting an informant’s tip to the FBI. Republicans had found out a confidential human source told his FBI handler in 2020 about a Ukrainian oligarch saying he bribed Joe Biden. They demanded the Justice Department hand … Read more
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and FBI are investigating widespread outages in AT&T’s wireless network that affected customers across the country Thursday morning. The FCC said it is aware of the reported outages and its Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau is actively investigating the incident. “We are in touch … Read more
The U.S. is offering rewards for information on leaders of the LockBit ransomware group. LockBit is a syndicate operating since 2019. It accounted for 23 percent of the nearly 4,000 attacks globally last year in which ransomware gangs posted data stolen from victims to extort payment, according to the cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks, per … Read more
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former FBI informant charged with making up a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company had contacts with Russian intelligence-affiliated officials, prosecutors said in a court paper Tuesday. Prosecutors revealed the alleged contact as they urged a judge to keep Alexander Smirnov … Read more
Attorneys for the president’s son say an FBI informant’s lies have “infected” the case against their client. Hunter Biden faces federal charges for having failed to pay his taxes on time and for illegally owning a gun when he was addicted to crack cocaine. A plea deal and diversion agreement collapsed last summer over a … Read more
The FBI and other agencies have disrupted a ransomware syndicate, known as LockBit, that was behind a series of global cyberattacks that extracted at least $120 million, according to the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA). “Today, after infiltrating the group’s network, the NCA has taken control of LockBit’s services, compromising their entire criminal enterprise,” … Read more
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Thursday that it successfully disrupted a Russian hacking campaign that infiltrated the routers of homes and small business. The department said it “neutralized a network” of hundreds of small office and home office routers in a court-authorized operation. The operations copied and deleted “stolen and malicious” data and files from routers … Read more
