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fromNextgov.com
3 days ago

Suspected Chinese breach of FBI system exposed surveillance targets' phone numbers

A breach linked to China exposed phone numbers of FBI surveillance targets, raising concerns about counterintelligence risks.
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

FBI agents who investigated Trump file lawsuit alleging retaliatory firing

Three former FBI agents filed a lawsuit claiming wrongful termination for their investigation into Trump's actions after the 2020 election.
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fromSecuritymagazine
1 day ago

Breach of FBI Surveillance System Considered a "Major Incident," Security Experts Weigh In

FBI confirms major breach of surveillance system, exposing sensitive data and potentially revealing criminal probes and surveillance targets.
Privacy professionals
fromTechRepublic
3 days ago

FBI Declares Surveillance System Breach a 'Major Incident'

A China-linked breach of an FBI surveillance system has been classified as a major incident, posing significant risks to US national security.
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fromNextgov.com
3 days ago

Suspected Chinese breach of FBI system exposed surveillance targets' phone numbers

A breach linked to China exposed phone numbers of FBI surveillance targets, raising concerns about counterintelligence risks.
US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
6 days ago

Ex-FBI agents who worked on Trump cases sue agency and DoJ over firings

Three former FBI agents filed a lawsuit claiming wrongful termination for their work on Trump-related investigations, seeking to represent others fired for political reasons.
US politics
fromwww.aljazeera.com
6 days ago

FBI agents who investigated Trump file lawsuit alleging retaliatory firing

Three former FBI agents filed a lawsuit claiming wrongful termination for their investigation into Trump's actions after the 2020 election.
Information security
fromNextgov.com
14 hours ago

Government official impersonation scam complaints doubled in 2025, FBI report shows

Complaints of government impersonation scams nearly doubled from 2024 to 2025, resulting in approximately $800 million in losses.
fromBoston.com
1 day ago

Police car chases result in 8 deaths around US in less than a week

In 2023, a report from the Police Executive Research Forum called for police to put the brakes on car chases unless a violent crime has been committed and the suspect poses an imminent threat. The report noted a spike in fatalities and an increase in pursuits by some departments, including in Houston and New York City.
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fromNBC New York
2 days ago

NYPD searching for young sisters from Coney Island

NYPD is searching for two missing sisters, Jerzayah and Jeliyeh Singleton, last seen leaving their Coney Island home.
#ice
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fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

ICE says it bought Paragon's spyware to use in drug trafficking cases | TechCrunch

ICE has utilized spyware from Paragon Solutions to combat drug trafficking and foreign terrorist organizations' use of encrypted communications.
US politics
fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

ICE confirms it deployed Paragon spyware inside the United States for drug trafficking cases - Silicon Canals

ICE is using commercial spyware domestically, raising constitutional concerns about warrantless surveillance and lack of oversight.
NYC parents
fromWIRED
1 week ago

Why ICE Is Allowed to Impersonate Law Enforcement

ICE agents misled campus security to detain a student without proper identification or judicial warrant.
US politics
fromTechCrunch
4 days ago

ICE says it bought Paragon's spyware to use in drug trafficking cases | TechCrunch

ICE has utilized spyware from Paragon Solutions to combat drug trafficking and foreign terrorist organizations' use of encrypted communications.
US politics
fromSilicon Canals
4 days ago

ICE confirms it deployed Paragon spyware inside the United States for drug trafficking cases - Silicon Canals

ICE is using commercial spyware domestically, raising constitutional concerns about warrantless surveillance and lack of oversight.
NYC parents
fromWIRED
1 week ago

Why ICE Is Allowed to Impersonate Law Enforcement

ICE agents misled campus security to detain a student without proper identification or judicial warrant.
Travel
fromTravel + Leisure
3 days ago

A Former TSA Agent Shares The No. 1 Reason Bags Get Flagged at Security-and How to Prevent It From Happening

Human error, especially with laptops, is the primary reason for carry-on luggage being flagged at airport security.
Careers
fromSecuritymagazine
5 days ago

Beyond the Certificate: Why Real Expertise in Investigative Interviewing Comes from Practice

Training and certifications signal competence, but true effectiveness in investigative interviewing requires disciplined application and real-world experience.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 days ago

Overwhelmed' Prevent at risk of missing threats as referrals rise, UK counter-terror chief says

Prevent scheme faces overwhelming referrals, risking identification of genuine threats due to increased volume and lack of triage system.
#dhs
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fromNextgov.com
3 days ago

President's budget proposes folding beleaguered DHS intelligence office into headquarters

The Department of Homeland Security's intelligence office faces consolidation and potential workforce reductions under Trump's proposed budget for 2027.
fromemptywheel
2 months ago
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DOJ Continues to Let DHS Pick and Choose Screen Shots Pertaining to Their Assaults - emptywheel

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fromNextgov.com
3 days ago

President's budget proposes folding beleaguered DHS intelligence office into headquarters

The Department of Homeland Security's intelligence office faces consolidation and potential workforce reductions under Trump's proposed budget for 2027.
fromemptywheel
2 months ago
US politics

DOJ Continues to Let DHS Pick and Choose Screen Shots Pertaining to Their Assaults - emptywheel

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fromComputerWeekly.com
2 weeks ago

Technology accelerating crime, boosts case for national police service says NCA chief | Computer Weekly

Technology has fundamentally transformed crime by enabling criminals to operate globally in networks, access money laundering services, and conduct sophisticated attacks with unprecedented scale and speed.
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
3 weeks ago

Editorial | NYC makes its own luck with a strong NYPD counterterrorism unit | amNewYork

Two bombs at Gracie Mansion failed to detonate, narrowly preventing mass casualties; robust NYPD counterterrorism funding and staffing remain essential amid escalating Iran tensions.
NYC politics
fromwww.dw.com
4 weeks ago

US: Investigators looking at ISIS motive in NY bomb attack

Two men were arraigned on terrorism charges after throwing improvised explosive devices at far-right protesters outside NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's residence during a Christian nationalist anti-Islam demonstration.
fromCalifornia Post
1 month ago

California teen at center of FBI terror probe over his chemistry set speaks out: 'Personal battle'

What my interest truly was in is in creating these molecules called Cubanes, which have a three-dimensional structure, which can be manipulated in a way to allow these molecules to bind directly and in an efficient and better way than people have bound these compounds ever before. And this has been a truly personal battle for me because I lost my aunt to cancer in 2020.
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fromBusiness Insider
1 month ago

How infiltrating the mafia actually works, according to a former FBI agent

FBI agent Joaquin Garcia spent 24 of 26 years undercover, infiltrating the Gambino crime family as 'Jack Falcone' and successfully indicting 32 mobsters.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

Heads Down! Hands Up!' Passengers Capture Scary Moment Feds Storm Plane to Deal With Possible Security Matter'

Southwest Flight 2094 made an emergency landing in Atlanta after a possible security matter, with federal officers and police boarding to detain a passenger amid reports of a bomb threat.
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fromSecuritymagazine
2 weeks ago

8M Confidential Crime Tips Hacked, Compromised

A hacker group breached P3 Global Intel's tip platform, compromising over 8 million confidential tips totaling 93 gigabytes, revealing unencrypted data and secret de-anonymization capabilities despite promised anonymity.
Information security
fromtechcrunch.com
1 month ago

FBI investigating hack on its wiretap and surveillance systems: report

Hackers breached FBI networks managing wiretaps and foreign intelligence surveillance warrants, marking another major U.S. government cybersecurity incident amid ongoing threats from Chinese and Russian threat actors.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

Why is the FBI buying people's location data and how is it using the information?

The FBI resumes purchasing commercially available location data on Americans, circumventing warrant requirements and Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless surveillance.
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fromwww.mediaite.com
1 month ago

FBI Looking At 'Internet Outage' During Nancy Guthrie Case

The FBI investigates a possible internet outage coinciding with Nancy Guthrie's disappearance over 30 days ago, with a neighbor's ring camera mysteriously non-functional the night she vanished.
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fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

FBI is probing 'suspicious' breach into bureau networks

The FBI is investigating suspicious activities on its networks, potentially involving systems used for court-ordered wiretapping requests.
#immigration-enforcement
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago
Brooklyn

PREMIUM I'm a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here's how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles

fromPoynter
2 months ago
US politics

Put this on your immigration radar: ICE now has more than a billion dollars for state and local police - Poynter

US politics
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

Confessions of the ICE Agent Whisperer

Independent journalist Karl Loftus interviews anonymous DHS immigration enforcement agents through his project 'Confessions of an ICE Agent,' providing rare insight into officers' perspectives during Trump's immigration enforcement surge.
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago
Brooklyn

PREMIUM I'm a former FBI agent who studies policing, and here's how federal agents in Minneapolis are undermining basic law enforcement principles

fromPoynter
2 months ago
US politics

Put this on your immigration radar: ICE now has more than a billion dollars for state and local police - Poynter

fromComputerworld
1 month ago

FBI wiretap system tapped by hackers

The FBI identified and addressed suspicious activities on FBI networks, and we have leveraged all technical capabilities to respond.
Information security
fromTechCrunch
3 weeks ago

Hacker broke into FBI and compromised Epstein files, report says | TechCrunch

An unidentified foreign hacker broke into the FBI's field office in New York in 2023 and compromised files related to the bureau's investigation into the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to Reuters. The hack took advantage of a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI's New York Field Office that was left inadvertently vulnerable by an FBI special agent working on the case.
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fromTheregister
4 weeks ago

FBI investigating breach that reportedly hit wiretapping net

The FBI is investigating a breach of its wiretapping and surveillance systems, while Europol dismantled major cybercrime platforms including a phishing service and stolen data marketplace.
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fromTechRepublic
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

FBI Investigates Suspicious Activity in Surveillance Platform

The FBI is investigating suspicious cyber activity on systems managing surveillance and wiretap warrants, highlighting critical vulnerabilities in sensitive law enforcement infrastructure.
fromSecurityWeek
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

FBI Investigating 'Suspicious' Cyber Activity on System Holding Sensitive Surveillance Information

The FBI is investigating suspicious activities on an internal system containing sensitive surveillance data, with an unidentified actor using sophisticated techniques to exploit network security controls.
Privacy professionals
fromTechRepublic
1 month ago

FBI Investigates Suspicious Activity in Surveillance Platform

The FBI is investigating suspicious cyber activity on systems managing surveillance and wiretap warrants, highlighting critical vulnerabilities in sensitive law enforcement infrastructure.
Privacy professionals
fromSecurityWeek
1 month ago

FBI Investigating 'Suspicious' Cyber Activity on System Holding Sensitive Surveillance Information

The FBI is investigating suspicious activities on an internal system containing sensitive surveillance data, with an unidentified actor using sophisticated techniques to exploit network security controls.
Canada news
fromwww.cbc.ca
2 months ago

FBI to give update on 'major' investigation amid U.S. media reports Ryan Wedding in custody | CBC

Ryan Wedding, a former Canadian Olympian, allegedly led a transnational drug-smuggling empire importing 60 metric tonnes of cocaine yearly into Los Angeles and is captured.
Law
fromwww.aljazeera.com
2 months ago

FBI takes over investigation into ICE agent killing of woman in Minneapolis

The FBI is solely leading the investigation into the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Macklin Good after the BCA withdrew and lost access to evidence.
Law
fromEmptywheel
2 months ago

The Marathon Trial: An Assessment of FBI and NSA's Online Investigations

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother used TMobile phones and linked social accounts, raising questions about NSA dragnet coverage and investigative connection methods.
US politics
fromThe Cipher Brief
1 month ago

Purpose-Built or Perilous: Congress Faces a Critical FBI Headquarters Decision

The FBI headquarters relocation must prioritize employee safety and data security over cost, requiring a new facility meeting Level V security standards rather than retrofitting the vulnerable Reagan Building.
Social justice
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Private investigators must be trained to spot signs of domestic abuse and stalking | Letter

Private investigators are being used by perpetrators to locate and surveil victims, undermining safety and requiring statutory regulation, mandatory abuse training, and accountability.
Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Turns out most cybercriminals are old enough to know better

Middle-aged adults aged 35-44 comprise 37% of cybercrime arrests, with 25-44 year-olds accounting for nearly 60% of cases, contradicting the teenage hacker stereotype.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

FBI and Las Vegas police investigate suspected case of terrorism

A 23-year-old drove to a Las Vegas-area power substation with weapons and explosives, crashed, and died by self-inflicted shotgun wound; incident treated as terrorism.
fromThe Hacker News
1 month ago

FBI Reports 1,900 ATM Jackpotting Incidents Since 2020, $20M Lost in 2025

The jackpotting attacks involve the use of specialized malware, such as Ploutus, to infect ATMs and force them to dispense cash. In most cases, cybercriminals have been observed gaining unauthorized access to the machines by opening an ATM face with widely available generic keys. There are at least two different ways by which the malware is deployed: Removing the ATM's hard drive, followed by either connecting it to their computer, copying it to the hard drive, attaching it back to the ATM, and rebooting the ATM,
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fromFlowingData
2 months ago

Federal agents in Minnesota could outnumber total Twin Cities police

A potential 3,000 federal ICE and CBP agents would equal five times Minneapolis Police Department manpower and nearly one agent per 1,000 Twin Cities residents.
US politics
fromWIRED
1 month ago

DHS Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies

DHS plans to build a unified biometric matching system combining face, fingerprint, iris, and other identifiers across multiple enforcement agencies.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

How the FBI might have gotten inaccessible camera footage from Nancy Guthrie's house

FBI recovered Nest doorbell footage showing a masked person; recovery appears to involve backend residual data and may be affected by tampering or subscription status.
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fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

FBI releases description of suspect, increases reward in Nancy Guthrie case

FBI released a description of a man seen at Nancy Guthrie's home, recovered footage, and doubled the reward to $100,000.
#fbi-resignation
US politics
fromNextgov.com
1 month ago

FBI gathered intelligence on reporters, religious orgs using 'assessment' authority, watchdog report says

FBI assessments examined over 1,000 journalists, religious groups, politicians and others using intelligence tools without needing a criminal predicate or warrant-level evidence.
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fromFortune
1 month ago

FBI's search for Nancy Guthrie has few leads, with potential break in the case fizzling | Fortune

Investigators have not identified a suspect in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance despite surveillance footage and a brief detainment, though progress may be underway.
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fromThe Washington Post
2 months ago

Minnesota to review ICE shooting after FBI blocks state agents from case

Minnesota prosecutors will conduct an independent review of Renee Nicole Good's killing to secure state access to evidence after the FBI limited state involvement.
fromTruthout
2 months ago

FBI Investigating Renee Good While Obstructing Probes Into ICE Killer

FBI investigators are looking into Renee Nicole Good's life and potential history of anti-ICE activism after her death, sources familiar with the situation have said, seemingly trying to retroactively justify her killing as they obstruct probes into her killer, ICE agent Jonathan Ross. Sources told The New York Times that it "seems increasingly unlikely" that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent will face criminal charges for his shooting and killing of Good.
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fromWIRED
2 months ago

People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good

Social media circulated AI-altered images falsely presenting an unmasked ICE agent after a masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
fromThe Jerusalem Post | JPost.com
2 months ago

Minessota man posed as FBI agent to try to free Mangione | The Jerusalem Post

Mangione, 27, is awaiting trial in a death penalty murder case on charges that he gunned down Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, in Manhattan in 2024. Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth Group chief executive Brian Thompson, appears in Manhattan Supreme Court on New York state murder and terrorism charges in New York City, U.S., February 21, 2025. (photo credit: Curtis Means/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo)By REUTERS A Minnesota man has been accused of impersonating an FBI agent to attempt to free accused health insurance CEO killer Luigi Mangione from a Brooklyn prison, while carrying a barbecue fork and a pizza-cutter blade, court records show.
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fromThe Verge
1 month ago

FBI releases recovered footage from Nancy Guthrie's Nest cam

FBI released Nest footage showing a masked person at Nancy Guthrie's front door and is offering up to $50,000 for information.
US politics
fromwww.dw.com
2 months ago

How are ICE agents recruited, and who are they?

ICE doubled its agent force and accelerated deportations while shortening training and removing Spanish requirements, prompting screening, suitability, and politicization concerns after a fatality.
US politics
fromEngadget
1 month ago

The Morning After: DOJ may face investigation over removal of ICE agent tracking apps

House Judiciary Committee requests DOJ communications with Apple and Google regarding removal of apps that shared sightings of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
2 months ago

FBI Agent Who Sought Probe of Renee Good's Shooter Resigns After Pressure From Higher-Ups

An FBI supervisor resigned after being blocked from investigating an ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good, amid reported Justice Department pressure and internal obstruction.
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

ICE conducted 37 investigations into officer misconduct in last year

ICE conducted 37 use-of-force investigations last year; 18 closed and 19 pending or referred.
US politics
fromDataBreaches.Net
2 months ago

StopICE Hacked: Names And Locations of Over 100k Users Were Sent to the FBI, ICE and HSI - DataBreaches.Net

A StopICE security breach exposed sensitive personal data and precise GPS locations of over 100,000 users to federal agencies, creating serious privacy and First Amendment concerns.
US politics
fromWIRED
1 month ago

Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents

HSI forum members criticize ERO's paramilitary tactics, express discomfort with mass deportations, debate agent-public interactions, and complain about working conditions.
fromenglish.elpais.com
1 month ago

Local police agreements with ICE are skyrocketing in the United States, reigniting debate over public trust

Agreements allowing local police forces to collaborate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have multiplied at an unprecedented rate. An analysis of official data by FWD.us, a nonpartisan organization that advocates for comprehensive immigration and criminal justice reform, shows that 1,168 police departments had officers enrolled to assist ICE at the end of January, up from 135 during the Biden administration and 150 at the end of Donald Trump's first term.
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fromJezebel
1 month ago

FBI Told Minnesota It Will Share Zero Evidence on Alex Pretti Shooting, Even as ICE Admits its Lies

Federal agencies denied Minnesota investigators access to FBI-collected evidence in Alex Pretti's death; the BCA will proceed independently without federal cooperation.
US politics
fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

FBI searches WaPo reporter's home. And, Trump restores $2B to public health funds

FBI searched Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home, seizing electronics during a leak probe, prompting concerns about press freedom.
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