News with the tag "Department of Homeland Security"

The United States and South Korea are reportedly partnering in a joint research initiative aimed at strengthening protections against the theft of crypto assets. According to a report by the Yonhap News Agency, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the government of South Korea signed an agre...

The US Homeland Security Investigations (HIS) Cyber Crimes Center reported it disrupted hundreds of ransom attacks since its formation in 2021.

Leading crypto critic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) has asked U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland what tools the federal government needs to crack down on the use of digital assets to perpetrate child sexual exploitation, according to a letter she sent to the top U.S. law-enforcement offici...

The team is opening more cases in other jurisdictions and offering a roughly $800,000 bounty to the general public for information on the exploiter.