FBI

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

(source: fbi.gov)

Email B2B Scams Cost $26B Over Last Three Years
Email B2B Scams Cost $26B Over Last Three Years
September 11, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Email often gets overlooked in the 2019 digital economy, given the higher levels of excitement attached to social media, video and other, more cutting-edge tools...

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 Justice Department Indicts 80 in Massive Online Fraud Scheme
 Justice Department Indicts 80 in Massive Online Fraud Scheme
August 26, 2019  |  B2B Payments

The Justice Department has unsealed an indictment spanning hundreds of charges against 80 individuals, many of them Nigerian nationals. The charges detail elaborate BEC schemes...

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FBI Wants More Access To Facebook Data To Monitor Threats
FBI Wants More Access To Facebook Data To Monitor Threats
August 08, 2019  |  Regulation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to be able to have more access to social media to monitor potential threats, according to a report in...

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Cap One Hack Hits 100M Credit Card Applications
Cap One Hack Hits 100M Credit Card Applications
July 30, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Capital One announced that a hacker had accessed about 100 million credit card applications, as well as thousands of Social Security and bank account numbers....

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FBI Investigates Long Island Iced Tea For Blockchain-Related Crimes
FBI Investigates Long Island Iced Tea For Blockchain-Related Crimes
July 25, 2019  |  Blockchain

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has filed a search warrant request for a trading and securities fraud investigation related to the blockchain pivot...

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Bitcoin Daily: US Bitcoin Ransomware Virus Shows Up In China; Crypto Thief Faces Charges For Swindling $1.7M
Bitcoin Daily: US Bitcoin Ransomware Virus Shows Up In China; Crypto Thief Faces Charges For...
July 18, 2019  |  Bitcoin

A ransomware virus that the FBI has been tracking since 2018 has been detected in China. According to CoinDesk, a recent Tencent Security report stated...

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Ex-Sabre Exec Pleads Guilty In Invoice Fraud Case
Ex-Sabre Exec Pleads Guilty In Invoice Fraud Case
July 05, 2019  |  B2B Payments

A former executive at corporate travel technology firm Sabre Airline Solutions has reportedly reached a plea deal with prosecutors following allegations of invoice and wire...

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Feds Investigate QuadrigaCX’s $195M Crypto Mystery
Feds Investigate QuadrigaCX’s $195M Crypto Mystery
June 05, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

The case of the curious crypto exchange, and its quick collapse, deepens. Bloomberg reports that a slew of regulators and investigators are looking into QuadrigaCX’s...

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Agency Says FBI’s Facial Recognition Tech Falls Short
Agency Says FBI’s Facial Recognition Tech Falls Short
June 04, 2019  |  Biometrics

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and members of congress say the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology isn’t private or accurate enough, according to a...

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