U.S. federal law enforcement agency under DHS that protects national leaders and investigates financial crimes, cybercrime, and counterfeiting.
Prosecutors charged Oxygen Forensics CEO Lee Reiber and Russian national Oleg Davydov with hiding five Russian owners from US agencies. The affidavit names four federal buyers, among them the Secret Service and the Department of War.
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The FBI and Secret Service warned Tuesday that FortiBleed is still scanning Fortinet firewalls and SSL VPN gateways with 86,644 stolen credentials. Patching and a password reset will not clear it.
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Americans 60 and older filed about 20% of FBI cybercrime complaints in 2025 and bore more than 37% of reported losses. One woman's roughly $100,000 loss over three days, after a fake bank-support handoff, shows why the usual post-scam checklist falls short.
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Treasury puts Xinbi's throughput above $24bn since 2022 and TRM Labs says $36bn, but the Secret Service and Elliptic have frozen $52.8m, and the last two guarantee markets designated this way were replaced rather than removed.
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The Cape Town Zone of Black Axe ran romance and advance fee scams from 2011 until South African police made arrests in 2021, and the accounts prosecutors traced also carried business email compromise proceeds.
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Federal authorities arrested Oxygen Forensics' CEO and CTO, alleging they hid Russian ownership to win over $2 million in Secret Service work. DOJ does not allege malicious code, so agencies running the tool are left weighing who controls it and the same software's sale to Russia's FSB.
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Elliptic and the US Secret Service froze 52 wallets holding $52.8 million in USDT on September 8. US sanctions followed a day later, Telegram deleted the channels the same day, and Xinbi says it is moving to a stablecoin nobody can freeze.
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Trump posted the ban on Friday, and by Saturday morning CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters were being turned away from the White House grounds. Politico says the Secret Service kept its reporter's pass.
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The three outlets want a federal judge in Washington to declare Saturday's lockout unconstitutional, and their complaint pairs a First Amendment retaliation claim with a Fifth Amendment due process claim.
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The Justice Department sentenced Oleksii Lytvynenko to four years over Conti, the ransomware the FBI ties to more than $150m in victim payouts as of January 2022 and to attacks in 47 states. Four others stand charged in the same district.
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Treasury put $12.7bn behind 33,904 suspicious activity reports about crypto investment fraud, and the more consequential half of that release is the dated indicator list compliance teams are now asked to screen against.
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Wyden and Casar want a public review of federal hacking, spyware purchases and Rule 41 warrants. Wiretaps produce an annual report; 25 years of hacking has never produced one.
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The broadcaster wants documents and sworn testimony from three Trump family members over a January 6 speech edit, with trial provisionally set for February. That is a merits posture, not a settlement one.
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The administration wants the Supreme Court to let a $400 million project Congress never funded proceed while it appeals. Chief Justice Roberts gave the plaintiffs until Tuesday to respond.
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A six-agency #StopRansomware advisory dated August 10, 2026 gives defenders named CVEs, tooling and file extensions for a group that took about nine months to turn a variant into a business.
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