Hacker News with Generative AI: FBI

FBI shares photos of pieces of drone that damaged super scooper aircraft (abc7ny.com)
The FBI released new photos of a damaged water-dropping super scooper firefighting aircraft that collided with a drone over the Palisades Fire.

FBI, Drones, Aviation Safety, Wildfires

6 points by cratermoon 3 days ago | 0 comments

FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia (thehill.com)
The FBI arrested a Virginia man it says had the largest stockpile of explosives recovered in the agency’s history.

FBI, Explosives, Virginia, Law Enforcement, Crime

246 points by domofutu 17 days ago | 465 comments

The FBI's WofMD Program Has a New Target: Animal Rights Activists (theintercept.com)
The FBI has been collaborating with the meat industry to gather information on animal rights activism, including Meat the Victims, under its directive to counter weapons of mass destruction, or WMD, according to agency records recently obtained by the nonprofit Animal Partisan through Freedom of Information Act litigation.

FBI, Animal Rights, Activism, Law Enforcement, Meat Industry

27 points by blueoysterbar 47 days ago | 27 comments

FBI raids home and seizes phone of Polymarket founder (theguardian.com)
The FBI raided the home of the chief executive of the predictive betting site Polymarket and seized his phone late on Wednesday.

FBI, Politics, Law Enforcement, Cryptocurrency

14 points by bookofjoe 65 days ago | 2 comments

FBI raids Polymarket CEO's home, seizing phone, electronics (yahoo.com)
Federal law enforcement agents raided the downtown New York home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan on Wednesday, seizing his phone and electronics, the company confirmed.

FBI, Law Enforcement, Crypto, Business, New York

8 points by marban 65 days ago | 1 comments

FBI seizes Polymarket CEO's phone, electronics (nypost.com)
The FBI seized Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan’s phone and electronics early Wednesday morning — just a week after the election-betting platform successfully predicted President-elect Donald Trump’s win, The Post has learned.

FBI, Politics, Elections, Law Enforcement

45 points by elsewhen 65 days ago | 44 comments

Brazil Arrests 'USDoD' Hacker in FBI Infragard Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being “USDoD,” a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI’s InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members.

Cybersecurity, FBI, Hacking, Law Enforcement

45 points by codewiz 88 days ago | 10 comments

FBI revises 2022 crime statistics – 4.5% increase, not 2.1% decrease (realclearinvestigations.com)
When the FBI originally released the “final” crime data for 2022 in September 2023, it reported that the nation’s violent crime rate fell by 2.1%. This quickly became, and remains, a Democratic Party talking point to counter Donald Trump’s claims of soaring crime.

FBI, Crime Statistics, Politics, News, Data

23 points by gjsman-1000 94 days ago | 2 comments

The 727 That Vanished (smithsonianmag.com)
Seven years after her brother disappeared from Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola, Benita Padilla-Kirkland is trying to persuade the FBI to re-open his case.

Missing Persons, Aviation, FBI

18 points by belter 103 days ago | 2 comments

FBI raids HQ of US govt IT giant Carahsoft (theregister.com)
Virginia-based public sector IT services giant Carahsoft was raided Tuesday by US government agents.

FBI, Government, IT, Security, Virginia

5 points by LinuxBender 115 days ago | 0 comments

FBI boss says China 'burned down' 260k-device botnet when confronted by Feds (theregister.com)
China-backed spies are said to have tore down their own 260,000-device botnet after the FBI and its international pals went after them.

Cybersecurity, China, FBI, Botnets

6 points by LinuxBender 121 days ago | 0 comments

The FBI spent decades tracking mathematician Paul Erdős (2015) (muckrock.com)
The FBI spent decades tracking mathematician Paul Erdős, only to conclude that the guy was just really into math

FBI, Mathematics, History, Surveillance

18 points by signa11 130 days ago | 6 comments

Americans lost $5.6B last year in crypto scams, FBI says (apnews.com)
Americans were duped out of more than $5.6 billion last year through fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency, the FBI said in a report released Monday that shows a 45% jump in losses from 2022.

Cryptocurrency, Crime, FBI, Finance, United States

53 points by anigbrowl 130 days ago | 6 comments

Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro (2020) (gizmodo.com)

Security, Facebook, FBI, Linux

60 points by paravirtualized 148 days ago | 23 comments

He Was an FBI Informant–and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists (wired.com)

FBI, Extremism, Terrorism, Law Enforcement, Information

5 points by Teever 169 days ago | 5 comments

FBI Used New Cellebrite Software to Access Trump Shooter's Phone (bloomberg.com)

FBI, Law Enforcement, Software, Security, Politics

11 points by colinprince 179 days ago | 0 comments

Shoe prints lead FBI to suspect couple involved in multiple New Mexico wildfires (nbcnews.com)