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Appears in 19 stories · Last updated Nov 10, 2026
Named recipient for reports of flagged DNA orders
Any U.S. scientist who takes federal money and orders synthetic DNA will soon have to buy it from a supplier the government has vetted. The National Policy for Nucleic Acid Synthesis Screening, released on 5 November, ends a voluntary system that has governed the industry since 2010.
Updated 2 days ago
Attributed the theft to North Korea's TraderTraitor on October 31 and asked crypto firms to block hundreds of addresses tied to the funds
Binance has reopened withdrawals on most of the networks it shut after the October 29 theft, and says it has replaced 98% of the $6.34 billion in affected assets. Its incident report traces the breach to a tampered software tool in June and a fake job interview in September.
Co-author of the November 5 joint advisory; no suspect or country named publicly
In August 2026, refrigerators failed at U.S. military commissaries. Attacks then hit hundreds of French supermarkets in October and spread in early November to stores in at least eight European countries, including Italy, Sweden and Belgium.
Updated 3 days ago
Assisting the library's investigation
A ransomware attack hit the Queens Public Library on Wednesday, knocking out the website, public Wi-Fi, checkout and return machines, on-site computers, the mobile app and digital media services across all 66 branches. The branches themselves stayed open, and patrons could still check books out in person.
Updated 6 days ago
Investigating agency in the threat case
The Justice Department brought a third criminal case against James Comey on October 26, 2026, accusing him of leaking a classified document to a reporter in 2016. Prosecutors filed it as a criminal information, a charging document signed without a grand jury vote, while they work toward an indictment in Washington.
Updated Nov 2
Warned that the PHP flaws could allow remote code execution
Palo Alto Networks confirmed that attackers chained the PHP2Shell flaws with a Linux kernel bug to take root control of its firewalls, and shipped hotfixes for PAN-OS 12.2, 12.1, 11.2, 11.1 and 10.2. Unit 42, the company's threat research arm, said it independently verified the tooling and results that Dream Security described.
Updated Nov 1
Investigated the scheme and identified victims
Police in Madagascar raided 13 scam compounds between August and September 2026. The operations had been moved from Cambodia, according to US and Malagasy investigators, and inside were Chinese-run fraud schemes, hundreds of workers, and about 20 African nationals who told police their passports had been taken and they were forced to run romance and crypto scams.
Updated Oct 31
Investigated and arrested Zhang; filed criminal complaint
Wanying Zhang pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles federal court on October 23 to charges that she surveilled the Seattle-area family of Taiwan President William Lai's son for China. The judge set a pretrial hearing for November 12 and a four-day trial starting November 30 at the federal courthouse in Santa Ana.
Updated Oct 26
At the center of counterintelligence staffing cuts
FBI counterintelligence squads are running at 50% to 60% of their positions in many of the bureau's 56 field offices, five people familiar with the matter told NPR. In some offices, the number of spy-hunting squads has been cut in half.
Updated Oct 25
Defendant
Common Cause's 94-page lawsuit, filed Sept. 10 in Washington, D.C., asks a judge to bar the Department of Homeland Security, the Justice Department and the FBI from retaliating against people who record immigration enforcement. A federal judge in Ohio dismissed a similar suit from observer Sean Moorman on Oct. 2, saying the court lacked jurisdiction because the officers had left the area. The judge agreed observers have a First Amendment right to record.
Updated Oct 21
As of August 2026: Executed the takedown alongside DOJ
The US Justice Department and FBI seized three internet domains on August 26, disabling two hacking platforms that Chinese state-sponsored operators used against NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Justice Department, and the US Senate. The takedown shut down QScan and QTRouter, tools the group known as QTFY had run since at least 2018.
Updated Aug 27
As of August 2026: Lead investigator across affected states
Nine days after Michigan disclosed intrusions at nine of its water systems, the tally of affected states has held near a dozen. The FBI is still working out which incidents trace back to Iran-linked hackers, and no state has confirmed contaminated water reached customers.
Updated Aug 11
As of May 2026: Victim and lead investigator of the DCS-3000 breach
Salt Typhoon, a hacking group tied to China's Ministry of State Security, spent years quietly burrowing into American telecommunications networks (AT&T, Verizon, and at least seven others) to access court-authorized wiretap systems. Now it has reached the FBI itself. On April 1, 2026, the FBI classified a breach of its Digital Collection System Network as a 'major incident' — the most serious cybersecurity designation available under federal law.
Updated May 30
As of May 2026: Leading Hezbollah-inspired terrorism investigation
A 41-year-old naturalized citizen from Lebanon rammed a truck loaded with fireworks and an unidentified chemical accelerant through Temple Israel's front doors in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan, on March 12, exiting armed with a rifle. Synagogue security guards shot and killed him before he reached any of the 140 children and staff inside.
As of May 2026: Executing search warrants for 2020 election materials
On January 28, 2026, FBI agents seized 700 boxes of 2020 election ballots from a Fulton County warehouse. Four days later, on February 1, the Georgia Senate passed a resolution urging Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to hand over unredacted voter data to the DOJ — he refused, citing state privacy laws.
Updated May 23
As of May 2026: Leading investigation, blocking state involvement
ICE agent Jonathan Ross fired three shots in 700 milliseconds, killing 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in her car on a Minneapolis street. Good was a U.S. citizen, a mother of three, standing with her wife to support neighbors during Trump's self-proclaimed "largest immigration operation ever"—2,000 federal agents deployed to Minnesota.
Updated May 20
As of May 2026: Investigating ICE shooting while excluding state authorities and DOJ Civil Rights Division
Three Minnesota congresswomen entered a Minneapolis ICE detention center on January 10 but were ordered out minutes later. They'd come three days after an ICE agent shot 37-year-old U.S. citizen Renee Good in the head during what the Trump administration called the largest immigration enforcement operation ever. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem secretly signed a seven-day notice rule the day after Good's killing—a rule a federal judge had already blocked—and Judge Jia Cobb refused to block it on January 20.
As of May 2026: Leading investigation into Good's killing
An ICE agent shot Renee Nicole Good through her car window on a Minneapolis street January 7, killing the 37-year-old mother instantly. Federal officials claimed self-defense, saying Good weaponized her Honda Pilot to ram agents. But video shows something different: a woman slowly backing up and pulling forward, trying to leave, before an officer fires three shots into her head. "Having seen the video myself, that is bullshit," said Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. The shooter: Jonathan Ross, a 43-year-old deportation officer who was dragged fifty yards by a vehicle he tried to forcibly enter just six months earlier. Seventeen days later, on January 24, Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse and legal gun owner. Video shows Pretti filming agents with his phone, getting pepper-sprayed, wrestled to the ground by six agents, then shot at least ten times. DHS claimed he was armed and violent. Video evidence again contradicts the official account. At least six federal prosecutors resigned in protest over how investigations were being handled—pressure to investigate victims' families rather than the shooters. On January 24, FBI agent Tracee Mergen, supervisor of the Public Corruption Squad in Minneapolis, resigned over pressure to "reclassify/discontinue the investigation" into Good's killing and focus instead on her widow Becca. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara noted that two of the city's three homicides in 2026 were committed by federal agents.
Updated May 19
As of May 2026: Assisted with manhunt and investigative support
Brown's Dec. 13 shooting evolved from a campus lockdown into an extended manhunt. Gunfire killed two students—Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov—and wounded nine others; the initially detained suspect was released, and investigators have used residential and vehicle-camera footage to track the shooter's movements.
Updated May 15
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