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FBI Losing Cyber Crime Agents to Lucrative Jobs in Private Sector
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is losing some agents with experience in investigating Internet crimes. Matthew Goldstein of the New York Times reports that in the last three months, at least a half-dozen FBI agents on the online security squad of the New York office have quit to take more lucrative jobs in the…
Chinese Hackers Steal Personnel Data from Alarming Number of FBI Agents
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Chinese cyber-thieves penetrated an alarming number of FBI agents’ personnel files during several bold breaches that Newsweek reports have “potentially dangerous national security implications.” The FBI is now tasked with investigating the massive breach of federal Office of Personnel Management (OPM) computers and will be assisted by Homeland Security. It’s not…
FBI Increases Bounty to $3M on Bureau’s Most Wanted Cyber Criminal
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering a $3 million reward for information on the bureau’s most wanted cyber criminal, Newsweek reports. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 31, is accused of coordinating the GameOver ZeuS botnot, allowing him to collect personal and financial information from computers. The FBI alleges the malware infected 1 million computers, resulting…
FBI Offers $3M Reward for Information on Most Wanted Cyber Criminal
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering some serious cash for information leading to the arrest of the bureau’s most wanted cyber criminal. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 31, is accused of hacking 1 million computers in the U.S. and internationally. Newsweek reports that the FBI is offering $3 million for information on capturing Bogachev, who…
FBI Combats Computer Hackers with Cyber Crimes Task Force in Louisville
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The alarming increase in computer attacks has prompted the FBI to create a cyber crimes task force in Louisville, WDRB.com reports. To combat the sophistication, the FBI is recruiting computer-savvy people. “There’s a changing in the F.B.I. for sure,” said Michael Russo Jr., a Supervisory Special Agent with the F.B.I. Russo…
Former Discount Furniture Salesman Becomes Foremost Expert in Cyber Crime for FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Before becoming a leading expert on cyber crime, J. Keith Mularski sold discount furniture. Now he’s a supervisory special agent for the FBI, heading the Pittsburgh field office’s cyber squad, the Associated Press reports. After graduating from college, Mularski spent about five years selling furniture before joining the FBI. “I was in…
Cyber Ring that Infected Millions Taken Down
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com Six Estonians operated a vast internet fraud that infected approximately 4 million computers in more than a hundred countries–500,000 of which were in the US–according to a federal indictment unsealed in New York Wednesday. Their arrests in Estonia on Tuesday were the culmination of a two-year FBI probe named Operation Ghost…