미 연방수사국(FBI)이 중국 정보기관이 보안 인가 자격을 가진 미국인들을 표적으로 삼는 데 사용한 것으로 의심되는 웹사이트 13곳을 폐쇄했다. 해당 사이트들은 컨설팅 업체로 위장해 손쉬운 수익을 제안하며 개인들을 모집하거나 강압적으로 민감한 정보를 공유하게 만들었다.
미 법무부는 수요일 이 같은 조치를 발표했다. 관계자들은 해당 도메인들이 보안 인가를 받은 전·현직 미국 정부 관계자들을 겨냥했다고 밝혔다. 로먼 로자브스키 FBI 방첩국 부국장은 이 가짜 사이트들이 AI가 생성한 콘텐츠를 사용했다고 설명했다. 그는 기밀 정보를 유출하도록 개인들을 속이거나 협박하려는 시도가 있었다고 지적했다. 워싱턴 주재 중국 대사관은 이러한 주장을 일축하며, 해당 의혹은 날조된 악의적인 비방이라고 반박했다. FBI는 중국 정보기관이 이러한 작전에 AI와 전문 네트워킹 및 결제 플랫폼을 활용하는 정황을 포착했다고 언급했다.
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FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that the agency buys commercially available data, including location information that can track Americans. The admission came in response to questions from Sen. Ron Wyden, who criticized it as an end-run around the Fourth Amendment. Sen. Tom Cotton defended the practice, likening it to searching public trash.
On Wednesday, United States authorities charged Chinese nationals and companies in two separate cases with offenses including conspiring to smuggle advanced AI chips to China and drug trafficking with money laundering. One case involves smuggling American-made AI chips via Thailand, the other an alleged fentanyl supply chain.
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FBI's Atlanta field office, with Indonesian authorities, has dismantled a sophisticated global phishing operation. The network stole thousands of victim account credentials and attempted fraud exceeding $20 million or Rp 342 billion. This marks the first joint cyber investigation of its kind.
German police and Europol shut down around 373,000 to 400,000 darknet sites selling gross child abuse material and scams in Operation Alice. Five Swedish men are suspected of gross child pornography crimes following a tip from German police. 440 customers were identified in the five-year investigation.
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The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has doubled its online content blocking orders to 24,300 in 2025, officials said, citing a surge in deepfakes and AI-generated content. Roughly 60% of these orders targeted URLs on X, formerly Twitter, with 25% for Facebook and Instagram, and 5% for YouTube.
A hacking group known as Handala, believed to be affiliated with Iranian cyberintelligence units, has breached the personal email account of FBI Director Kash Patel. The group published photos and emails from the account as proof of the hack, which the FBI and Department of Justice have confirmed involved only historical personal information. The breach follows recent U.S. actions against the group's websites and Patel's public threats to pursue them.