Sinking Section 702 Wiretap Program Offered One Last Lifeboat

A bill introduced by senators Dick Durbin and Mike Lee to reauthorize the Section 702 surveillance program is the fifth introduced in the US Congress this winter. The authority is threatening to expire in a month, disrupting a global wiretapping program said to inform a third of articles in the President’s Daily Briefing—a morning “tour … Read more

Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack: BlackCat Hackers Quickly Returned After FBI Bust

Six days before Christmas, the US Department of Justice loudly announced a win in the ongoing fight against the scourge of ransomware: An FBI-led, international operation had targeted the notorious hacking group known as BlackCat or AlphV, releasing decryption keys to foil its ransom attempts against hundreds of victims and seizing the dark web sites … Read more

FBI tells court Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ gun would not fire without pulling trigger

By Andrew Hay SANTA FE, N.M. (Reuters) – The revolver actor Alec Baldwin was holding when it fired a live round that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021 would not fire when fully cocked without the trigger being pulled, an FBI firearms expert testified on Monday. The testimony during the involuntary manslaughter trial of … Read more

FBI informant charged with lying about Joe and Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukrainian energy company

WASHINGTON (AP) — An FBI informant has been charged with lying to his handler about ties between President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and a Ukrainian energy company. Alexander Smirnov falsely told FBI agents in June 2020 that executives associated with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma paid Hunter and Joe Biden $5 million each in … Read more

A Backroom Deal Looms Over Section 702 Surveillance Fight

Johnson, notably, previously voted in favor of legislation that would have drastically reformed the 702 program with a slew of privacy protections. Despite the uncommon bipartisan support for reforming Section 702, sources familiar with the negotiations say pro-privacy amendments have a history of dying in backroom deals. An amendment proposed last summer to ban the … Read more

‘FBI’ Season 6 – 10 Cast Members to Return, 1 Star Is Moving to a Different Show! | Alana De La Garza, CBS, FBI, James Chen, Jeremy Sisto, John Boyd, Katherine Renee Kane, Katherine Renee Turner, Missy Peregrym, Roshawn Franklin, Shantel VanSanten, Slideshow, Taylor Anthony Miller, Television, Vedette Lim, Zeeko Zaki | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip

FBI returns to CBS this month! The Dick Wolf-created series, which follows an office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in New York City, is back with Season 6 on Tuesday, February 13 at 8 p.m. ET. We now know who is expected to return to FBI for Season 6, as well as one star … Read more

The FBI has arrested a self-touted militia sniper who says he was planning to attack people at the southern border

Immigrants trying to cross the Texan border despite heightened security measures in Eagle Pass.Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images The FBI has accused Paul Faye Sr. of trying to sell an unregistered AK-47 suppressor. The FBI says Faye admitted to wanting to launch an attack on the southern border. Faye’s “war room” had multiple firearms, such … Read more

Report that search missed “hidden” room at Mar-a-Lago suggests “insider tipped the FBI off”

Special counsel Jack Smith’s team has questioned several witnesses about a “hidden room” and a closet that the FBI did not check while searching former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022, sources told ABC News. Some investigators after the search came to believe that the closet, which was locked during the search, should have … Read more

YouTube, Discord, and ‘Lord of the Rings’ Led Police to a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree

A California teenager prosecutors say is responsible for hundreds of swatting attacks around the United States was exposed after law enforcement pieced together a digital trail left on some of the internet’s largest platforms, according to court records released this week. Alan Winston Filion, a 17-year-old from Lancaster, California, faces four felony charges in Florida’s … Read more