By Allan Lengel The non-profit news organization ProPublica has some bad news if you’re hoping the FBI will defend America against the menacing and dangerous practice called ransomware. Reporters Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden conclude that the FBI can’t keep pace with the problem because it lacks enough agents with advanced computer skills, it hasn’t recruited as…
The FBI settled a pair of lawsuits that were filed against the bureau after an agent masqueraded as an Associated Press journalist in 2007.
The FBI has identified the man accused of making a “broad threat” against New Jersey synagogues, which prompted the bureau to issue a rare warning last week.
By Allan Lengel As Jewish organizations express concern about the growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S., the FBI issued a warning Thursday that it was aware of credible threats against synagogues in New Jersey. “We are taking a proactive measure with this warning while investigative processes are carried out,” the FBI tweeted. “The…
Four days after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, tried to convey a message to President Donald Trump, said he wished he had killed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and predicted a coming civil war.
The FBI identified a woman found dead on Cape Cod, Mass., in 1974 by using “investigative genealogy,” the special agent in charge of the bureau’s Boston Field Office announced Monday.
By Allan Lengel Two Chinese intelligence agents face federal charges of trying to bribe an undercover FBI agent with hopes of obtaining classified information about a federal investigation, Insider reports. He Guochun and Wang Zheng allegedly offered the agent $61,000 in Bitcoin for secret information in the prosecution of a big Chinese telecommunications firm, the…
An accused Islamic extremist who threatened FBI agents in Pittsburgh was sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday.
