Department of Justice (DOJ)
DOJ Reorganizes Units to Better Fight Ransomware
The DOJ’s two-year-old National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) will merge with its Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) ...
Hacker Stole $3B Bitcoin — Yes, ‘Crypto’ is Garbage
James Zhong admitted to stealing 50,000 bitcoins from the former dark web market, Silk Road—the DoJ has the gory story ...
Chinese Huawei ‘Spies’ Charged — FBI is Mad as Hell
The Chinese government sent two spies to extract information about the U.S. case against Huawei. But they didn’t expect their contact to be a double agent ...
New DoJ Strategic Plan Targets Cyberattacks, Ransomware
The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) plans to make the prosecution of cybercriminals and the disruption of ransomware attacks key objectives of its new strategic plan, which includes the enhancement of ...
MAJOR Justice Dept. Breach — ‘Time for Drastic Measures’
Criminals have access to Justice Department databases and can write fake data, as well as read highly sensitive info, we’re told ...
Gotcha! Charges in REvil Attack, Feds Seize $6M
The long arm of the law just reached out and dragged Yaroslav Vasinskyi into the American criminal justice system, readying charges against the Ukrainian man for a REvil ransomware attack against a ...
Three Republican Senators Proposed Anti-Encryption Bill Endorsed by DOJ
On June 23, 2020, Senators Lindsay Graham, Tom Cotton, and Marsha Blackburn introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, one of the most expansive anti-encryption bills in recent history. The Bill ...
Section 230 Update: DOJ, Sen. Hawley Propose Limiting Online Platforms’ Protections
On June 17, 2020, in a 28-page report released on the topic of online platform liability, the U.S. Department of Justice proposed four material modifications of Section 230 of the CDA: Narrowing ...
