Today, the FBI and DOJ announced that Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy in connection with Conti, a ransomware variant that infected more than 1,000 computers and networks worldwide. Lytvynenko conspired with others to deploy Conti ransomware
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- This week on Ahead of the Threat, the #FBI Cyber podcast, Richard Horne, CEO of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, joins Assistant Director (AD) Brett Leatherman for a discussion on cyber threats and practical advice for companies looking to secure themselves against
- This week, @FBICleveland, in coordination with Google and Lumen's Black Lotus Labs, conducted a technical takedown operation against Outsider, a Chinese phishing-as-a-service platform (PhaaS) that has been in operation since 2023. The Outsider platform provides cyber criminals
- Today, the FBI is announcing Operation Riptide, an ongoing, coordinated law enforcement campaign targeting cybercriminal actors and the key services they rely on—their infrastructure, their tools and services, their communications platforms, and their money. Operation Riptide is
00:00 - Alongside many of FBI Cyber Division’s trusted industry, US government, and international partners, Deputy Assistant Director Todd Hemmen participated last week in the Paris Cyber Summit 2026, stressing the need for continued international collaboration to impose costs on cyber
- This week, representatives from FBI Cyber Division and Legat Kyiv met with Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office, National Police of Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine, and the State Bureau of Investigation to discuss efforts to combat international cybercrime. Our Ukrainian
- Malicious cyber actors are targeting U.S.-based automatic tank gauge (ATG) systems, widely used throughout the Energy, Chemical, Food and Agriculture, and Transportation Systems Sectors. The threat actors exploit flaws in ATG systems through multiple attack vectors, compromising
- FBI Cyber Division repostedKhalid Ahamad, 55 years old, of Little Elm, Texas, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud on Wednesday in the Northern District of Indiana. According to court documents, Ahamad knowingly conspired with others to defraud victims
- FBI Cyber Division repostedA Romanian national was sentenced to 56 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release in connection with an online intrusion into an Oregon state government office in 2021 and other cyber attacks on U.S. victims. According to court documents, Catalin Dragomir,
- Threat actors are spoofing the FIFA website through a process known as “typo squatting”. Typo squatting relies on Internet users making common typos when visiting a URL. Spoofing FIFA’s official website (fifa.com) allows threat actors to collect personally
- Yesterday the FBI released an advisory on the Silent Ransom Group (SRG), aka Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, who use social engineering techniques like phone calls and phishing emails to access victim computers. SRG actors have been steadily targeting law firms since 2023,






















