Cyber Actors Target K-12 Distance Learning Education to Cause Disruptions and Steal Data

This Joint Cybersecurity Advisory was coauthored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC). The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC assess malicious cyber actors are targeting kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) educational institutions, leading to ransomware attacks, the theft of data, …

ODNI Press Release

Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: Election Threat Update for the American Public

On July 24, 2020, I issued a statement to the American public providing an unclassified overview of foreign threats to the 2020 election and offering basic steps to mitigate some of these threats. At that time, I pledged that the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) would continue to update the American public and other key stakeholders on the …

Suspected Fraud Schemes Related to COVID-19

Citizens Academy Grads and Community Partners, Please see the news release below from U. S. Attorney Kennedy along with a PDF link to more information from the FBI regarding some of the fraudulent activities occurring during COVID-19.  The attachment and the information below may be shared widely.   Download FBI Office of Private Sector Liaison Information …

FBICAAA COVID-19 Response & Resources

FBI National Citizens Academy Alumni Association  COVID-19 Response & Resources Dear FBI Buffalo CAAA Members, After much consideration and monitoring of expert recommendations regarding the coronavirus outbreak, the FBI Buffalo CAAA Board of Directors has decided to suspend scheduled activities for the next 30 days. This includes member meetings and outreach programs. The health and …

FBI Launches ‘Stop Sextortion’ Campaign

As the new school year begins, the FBI is seeking to inform students about sextortion so they know how to avoid risky situations online and to ask for help if they are being victimized. Unfortunately, the FBI is seeing an alarming increase in cases that involve adults coercing children into producing sexual images and videos …

Director Observes 30th Anniversary of ‘Miami Shootout’

Today outside the FBI’s Miami Field Office, Director James Comey took part in a solemn observance of the 30th anniversary of one of the Bureau’s most fiercest gunfights which left two Bureau agents—Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove—dead, and five other agents wounded. The two heavily armed bank robbery suspects being pursued were also killed.

FBI Recognizes Leaders from Around the Nation

Each recipient received the Director’s Community Leadership Award, presented every year since 1990 by FBI field offices around the country to publicly honor those who have gone above and beyond the call to service by tirelessly working to make their own cities and towns a better and safer place for their fellow residents.

Sextortion and Cyberstalking

“The victim basically was saying that she was being cyberstalked by some guy who got into her e-mail and was threatening to expose compromising photos of her to her friends and family,” said FBI Special Agent Andrew Young, who interviewed some of the hundreds of victims targeted by Michael C. Ford, a former State Department …