Welcome to the Law Enforcement Cyber Center
The Law Enforcement Cyber Center (LECC) is designed to assist police chiefs, sheriffs, commanders, patrol officers, digital forensic investigators, detectives, and prosecutors who are investigating and preventing crimes that involve technology.
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DHS announces new measures to boost nation’s cybersecurity
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Monday announced a range of steps it will take to bolster the nation’s cybersecurity posture, including increasing funding for key cybersecurity issues.
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Six Defendants Arrested In Multiple States For Laundering Proceeds From Fraud Schemes Targeting Victims Across The United States Perpetrated By Ghana-Based Criminal Enterprise
Defendants Laundered Over $50 Million, Which Primarily Consisted of Proceeds of Fraud Schemes from Business Email Compromises, Romance Scams Targeting Elderly, and Fraudulent Small Business Loans for COVID-19 Relief
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Three North Korean Military Hackers Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Financial Crimes Across the Globe
A federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.
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SolarWinds hack turning into Pandora’s box of cyber-risk
The massive data breach that compromised software vendor SolarWinds is far broader in scope than originally thought, federal investigators have found, with close to one-third of the victims not even running the SolarWinds Orion product that was initially considered the entry point for hackers.
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The Cybersecurity 202: Vaccine distribution unleashes new cybersecurity risks
The complex supply chain behind making and delivering vaccines is creating a plethora of opportunities for hackers. The attacks could be from criminal hackers motivated by financial incentives or nation-states looking to cause economic and civil disruption.
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