DOJ seeks privacy ombudsman for a possible Character.AI chat sale
A bankruptcy filing says Character.AI has 12 million monthly users and an ambiguous policy that may allow chat histories to be sold.
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38 articles · newest firstOperation Blackout targeted West African scam networks
The Justice Department says the effort led to dozens of arrests and removal of more than 3.7 million fake accounts.
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DOJ charges five in AI-aided ghost-student loan fraud
Officials tie more than $32 million in confirmed loss to the charged subjects and seized over $750,000 in cryptocurrency.
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US seizes Virtualine bulletproof hosting domain used by cybercriminals
TRM Labs says the provider took nearly one-fifth of tracked illicit bulletproof-hosting inflows in 2026, and the seizure may not kill the infrastructure.
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Court filings describe ICE surveillance of Minnesota activists
Defense lawyers say HSI used undercovers, drones, and intercepted Signal chats in the Minnesota 15 case.
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Nefilim and Hive affiliate sentenced to 70 months
Artem Stryzhak pleaded guilty in December 2025; the FBI says the groups caused more than $100 million in losses.
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Nefilim and Hive affiliate Artem Stryzhak sentenced to 70 months
He pleaded guilty after extradition from Spain for attacks from 2018 through 2021; prosecutors still seek co-conspirator Volodymyr Tymoshchuk.
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Senators say administration is illegally withholding a Section 702 court opinion
Wyden and Schiff say a March 17 FISC opinion, due by September 13, shows compliance problems with querying Americans' data.
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Chinese man extradited to US over $36.9 million crypto scam
Zhen Zhao was arraigned in California after extradition from the Netherlands and faces up to 20 years if convicted.
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DOJ charges 28 in California voter-registration raids
Officials tie the cases to a 20,000-name subset of a DHS list of more than 190,000 alleged potential noncitizen registrants.
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Atlantic essay argues US political corruption has worsened
The linked piece is political commentary on the Constitution, Trump, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court, not a cyber or AI event.
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Court records tie Staples hack to multimillion-dollar gift-card fraud
Hackers issued more than 15,000 cards worth over $5 million; the gang redeemed about $425,000 of them.
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Hidden Audio Recorder Found at OpenAI as Employee Faces Federal Charges
An OpenAI employee was federally charged after allegedly hiding audio recorders in executive conference rooms.
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OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper
DOJ charged an OpenAI engineer with planting a covert recorder in an executive conference room.
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Feds Got Warrants to Use Fake Cell Towers to Hunt Down Don Lemon’s Producer
Court filings show federal warrants for cell-site simulators to locate Don Lemon's producer after a church protest.
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US Disrupts China-Linked Integrity Tech ‘s Cyber Espionage Tools
US authorities seized China-linked Integrity Tech tools Microscan and FishHub used to hack critical infrastructure.
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DOJ, FBI seize Flax Typhoon-linked hacking tools Microscan, FishHub
DOJ and FBI seized Flax Typhoon tools Microscan and FishHub tied to China's Integrity Technology Group.
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International coalition seizes tools used by cyber firm behind Flax Typhoon
A US-led coalition seized Flax Typhoon tools Microscan and FishHub operated by China's Integrity Tech.
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Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
Trump ordered US agencies to replace “artificial intelligence” with “Super Intelligence” in official materials.
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Former US Air Force members sent to prison over BEC attacks
Two former US Air Force airmen received a combined 189 months in prison for BEC and phishing schemes diverting over $2.4 million.
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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
The Trump administration warned AI and data-center critics could face foreign-agent criminal liability.
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Citing China, President Trump doubles down on hands-off approach to AI regulation
Trump reaffirmed a light-touch U.S. AI policy, citing competition with China over new regulation.
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Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
Decoder podcast: former DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter argues against AI antitrust exemptions and questions frontier labs' safety coordination motives.
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House passes bill to equip local law enforcement with scam-fighting tools
The U.S. House passed the GUARD Act, letting local law enforcement use federal grants to investigate financial scams and trace stolen cryptocurrency.
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You don’t have to join the hack-back program to inherit its risk
A new US presidential memorandum creates a vetted private hack-back program, leaving participating vendors and their customers with untested legal liability and collateral risks.
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DOJ Blocked ICE Agent Shooting Charge over Federal Prosecutor's Objections
DOJ leadership overruled a Minnesota prosecutor to limit charges against an ICE agent who shot a Venezuelan immigrant in Minneapolis.
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CMMC Hit Pause, the FAR Council Hit Play
DoD paused CMMC Phase 2 pending a 60-day review while a proposed FAR Council rule would extend NIST 800-171 Rev 3 to all federal contractors.
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FBI Disrupts China-Linked QTFY Infrastructure Used to Steal Data From U.S. Organizations
FBI and Lumen disrupted QTFY's QScan and QTRouter botnet platforms used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to conceal intrusions into U.S. agencies.
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Five Venezuelan Nationals Plead Guilty in Kansas ATM Jackpotting Attempt
Five Venezuelan nationals pleaded guilty to failed ATM jackpotting attempts in Kansas as the FBI reports 700+ US incidents in 2025.
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DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims
DoJ corrected its statement to say US federal agencies were targets, not confirmed victims, of China-linked group QTFY's intrusions.
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ATF confirms cyberattack hit system containing info on its investigation targets
Qilin ransomware group claimed breaching the ATF, exposing data on investigation targets; the agency says a standalone system was hit with no mission impact.
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DOJ firearms agency says hackers breached system containing investigation targets
ATF confirmed a cyberattack on a standalone system containing investigation target data, calling it a major incident; Qilin listed ATF on its leak site.
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FBI takes down China-linked hacking network behind attacks on NASA, DOJ and U.S. Senate
FBI seized domains disabling QScan and QTRouter malware run by China-linked QTFY group behind intrusions at NASA, DOJ, Senate and other agencies.
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Israel Is Running a Synthetic Think Tank to Influence AI Search Results
Israel funds the Hanover Institute, an AI-generated think tank by ad firm Piro, publishing 100+ articles to influence LLM chatbot answers about Israel.
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Early 764 member sentenced to 77 years, longest prison term to date for a nihilistic violent extremist
Kyle Spitze, an early 764 member, was sentenced to 77 years for producing CSAM, the longest sentence for a nihilistic violent extremist.
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Trump Memo Paves Way for U.S. Firms to Hack and Disrupt Foreign Crime Groups
Trump White House memo directs NCC to build a program within 60 days authorizing vetted U.S. companies to conduct cyber surveillance and effects operations against foreign criminal groups.
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US Authorizes Private Cyber Firms to Hack Transnational Criminal Networks
Trump signed a national security memorandum letting vetted private US cybersecurity firms run government-approved offensive cyber operations against transnational criminal organizations.
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Risky Bulletin: White House lets private companies carry out offensive cyber ops
A White House memo directs DHS to create a program letting vetted private companies conduct US-government-directed offensive cyber operations against cybercrime.
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