FBI News
AmTrust’s Stock Plunges After Media Report Alleges 2014 FBI Investigation Over Accounting Practices
AmTrust Financial saw its stock price plunge nearly 19 percent Tuesday following a Wall Street Journal report alleging a 2014 FBI investigation of its accounting practices. The New York-based ...
FBI Alleges VW Execs Concealed Diesel Cheating
Volkswagen (VW) executives decided to cover up cheating of U.S. emissions tests when they were told about it almost two months before the matter became a public scandal in 2015, according to a court ...
Report: Evidence Emerges Fiat Chrysler U.S. Sales Figures Were Inflated
An internal review begun at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles in 2015 found its U.S. sales figures were inflated, partly due to pressure to keep a year-over-year monthly sales streak alive, the Automotive ...
Global Cyber Email Scams Cost Businesses Billions of Dollars
Businesses have lost billions of dollars to fast-growing scams where fraudsters impersonate company executives in emails that order staff to transfer to accounts controlled by criminals, according to ...
FBI Seeks Help from U.S. Businesses in Ransomware Hacker Investigation
FBI is asking businesses and software security experts for emergency assistance in its investigation into a pernicious new type of "ransomware" virus used by hackers for extortion. "We need your ...
Cyber Victims Warned Against Revenge Hacking
The hacked are itching to hack back. So say a dozen security specialists and former law enforcement officials who described an intensifying and largely unspoken sense of unease inside many companies ...
From the FBI: Could Your Computer Be Infected by Blackshades?
In connection with the Monday's announcement from representatives from the FBI New York Field Office and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York about an international effort ...
FBI Announces Massive Cyber Crime Bust; Takes Down Blackshades Malware
Law enforcement officials in more than a dozen countries arrested about 90 people in a U.S.-led crackdown on the makers and users of software designed to steal identities and remotely control ...