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  • Ransomware Suspects Indicted

    Ransomware Suspects Indicted

    November 28, 2018

    Two Iranian men were indicted in connection with the deployment of the sophisticated and sinister SamSam ransomware that crippled the operations of critical facilities in the U.S. and Canada.

  • ViCAP Links Murders to Prolific Serial Killer

    ViCAP Links Murders to Prolific Serial Killer

    November 27, 2018

    Samuel Little has confessed to 90 murders to date, and the FBI’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Program is working with partners nationwide to match those confessions to killings that occurred between 1970 and 2005.

  • Elder Fraud

    Elder Fraud

    November 26, 2018

    A Canadian man was sentenced to more than 11 years behind bars for orchestrating a telemarketing credit card scam that defrauded at least 60,000 victims, many of them elderly, out of more than $18 million.

  • Combating Violent Crime

    Combating Violent Crime

    November 21, 2018

    Prosecutors secured a 35-year prison sentence for an armed robber who hit three Philadelphia corner stores during a violent two-day crime spree in 2016.

  • Telemarketing Fraudster Sentenced

    Telemarketing Fraudster Sentenced

    November 19, 2018

    The owner of a Maryland telemarketing company that defrauded small businesses, schools, churches, non-profits, and others out of millions of dollars will be spending time behind bars.

  • 2017 Hate Crime Statistics Released

    2017 Hate Crime Statistics Released

    November 13, 2018

    The number of hate crime incidents reported to the FBI increased about 17 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year, according to the latest annual Hate Crime Statistics report.

  • STEM Day 2018

    STEM Day 2018

    November 8, 2018

    The FBI uses science, technology, engineering, and math in nearly every investigation, and STEM Day serves as an opportunity to highlight career opportunities for individuals with these skill sets.

  • Festival Founder Sentenced

    Festival Founder Sentenced

    November 5, 2018

    The creator of the purported luxury music festival Fyre Fest will be spending time behind bars for defrauding investors and customers out of more than $26 million in two separate schemes.

  • The Morris Worm

    The Morris Worm

    November 2, 2018

    Thirty years ago, a graduate student unleashed the first major attack on the Internet and became the first person convicted of a new type of crime.

  • Combating Economic Espionage

    Combating Economic Espionage

    November 1, 2018

    The FBI and Department of Justice jointly announced economic espionage charges against a state-owned Chinese enterprise and other parties, along with a wider effort to combat Chinese economic espionage.

  • Cyberstalking

    Cyberstalking

    October 30, 2018

    Two unrelated sextortion crimes committed months apart and hundreds of miles away from each other illustrate the dangers of compromising personal photos being in the wrong hands.

  • Terrorist Plot Foiled

    Terrorist Plot Foiled

    October 22, 2018

    An Indiana resident who pledged his support to ISIS was sentenced to 15 years in prison for distributing information on explosives and poisons for use in a terror attack.

  • Charity Fraud

    Charity Fraud

    October 19, 2018

    A man who operated a bogus charity and duped multiple corporations out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in matching donations will be spending time behind bars.

  • Bad News for Hacker

    Bad News for Hacker

    October 15, 2018

    The mastermind of a $2 million scareware scheme that targeted readers of a Minneapolis news website has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.

  • New Top Ten Fugitive

    New Top Ten Fugitive

    October 11, 2018

    Lamont Stephenson, a New Jersey man wanted for murdering his fiancée, is the latest individual to be added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.

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