An international law enforcement campaign that began in 2020 culminated in the infiltration and control of the botnet's infrastructure, with a beneficial payload delivered to infected devices that scrubs the Emotet malware. Read More
US law enforcement agencies make up the majority of the information requests and nearly all of the ‘three letter’ players are getting in on the action, from the FBI to the IRS. Read More
New report paints a picture of US law enforcement agencies that are stocked with advanced phone extraction tools and are very eager to use them, even when it is not legally appropriate. Read More
Law enforcement agencies purchasing illicit breach data from SpyCloud, presumably for use in investigations, raising questions of due legal process by these agencies. Read More
Data dump containing 269 GB of police files from hundreds of U.S. law enforcement agencies and the FBI is found to be tied to a breach at a shared third-party vendor. Read More
Digital investigations take an important role in criminal justice today but law enforcement agencies face many challenges to drive operational efficiencies and standards in handling digital data. Read More
Mounting controversy over law enforcement agencies’ use of new facial recognition tool developed by Clearview AI, which allegedly scraped more than 3 billion photographs of people from Internet. Read More
The contentious ongoing battle between Apple and the Department of Justice continues, as the company has refused yet another request for an iPhone backdoor. Read More
New report shows government agencies are regularly using cloud extraction tools as surveillance technology to analyze and extract private data from major cloud services. Read More
Privacy concerns are mounting over Amazon Ring’s partnerships with U.S. law enforcement which allows the police to share surveillance videos with anyone they want. Read More
