A global malware network responsible for the theft of $5.9 billion in Covid relief funds and tied to other crimes like child exploitation and bomb threats has been shut down, Department of Justice officials announced Wednesday. The DOJ arrested 35-year-old YunHe Wang, a Chinese national who was charged with creating the “botnet,” a kind of … Read more
Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., is seen outside the U.S. Capitol after the last votes of the week on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images House Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wi., chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, announced on Saturday that he would not seek re-election … Read more
The FBI shut down a major China-backed hacking group that attacked hundreds of routers and had been working to compromise U.S. cyber infrastructure, FBI Director Christopher Wray announced Wednesday at a House committee hearing. The hacking group, code-named “Volt Typhoon,” had compromised hundreds of office and home-office routers to allow the Chinese government to access … Read more
The director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday his agency is “working around the clock” to stop potential terrorist attacks in the U.S. by individuals or groups inspired by Hamas’ deadly assault on Israel on Oct. 7. Christopher Wray told the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee that the country was at a heightened … Read more
It’s been quite the week in our nation’s capital, and we can now add suspicious mass transit options to the latest explanations as to why the violence of January 6 was not the fault of Donald Trump’s MAGA faithful. Valtteri Bottas Gets Excited About The Las Vegas Grand Prix | Jalopnik Chats Louisiana Republican Rep. … Read more
While it may seem like a relic of the past, Russian spies are still very much a presence in the U.S., the FBI’s director warned Thursday. “The Russian traditional counter-intelligence threat continues to loom large,” Christopher Wray said during a talk at Washington’s Spy Museum. “The Russian intelligence footprint, and by that I mean intelligence … Read more