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Former FBI Cyber Division deputy assistant director and longtime bureau official who worked on ransomware and nation-state threats; now in the private sector.
ShinyHunters claims data on almost every FBI agent, and samples reviewed by researchers show contact information, family details and duty assignments. The FBI has not confirmed what was taken or who took it, and says it is investigating.
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The FBI says it is investigating unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov. 404 Media reports the intruders came in through an Oracle PeopleSoft applicant server and then reached a government cloud holding agent data.
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The group says it holds two to three terabytes of FBI employee records and will publish them unless the bureau pulls language from a May 15 public service announcement about its tactics. The FBI says it is investigating.
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CyberLeek's drip-feed of stolen footage carries no notification clock. Take-Two's answer has been DMCA subpoenas, and researchers read the case as an insider threat investigation.
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The government confirmed the July outage and formally blamed nobody. The site sat below the level at which reporting cyber activity becomes a legal duty.
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Cynthia Kaiser says infrastructure operations have pushed some crews off US targets entirely. The numbers are the bureau's own, but the cadence is something defenders can plan around.
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A memorandum signed on August 12 lets vetted US firms run offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal networks. The unpriced term is who absorbs the downside.
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