The FBI is increasing the number of agents deployed to American embassies abroad to focus on cyber-related crime, part of the bureau’s latest effort to improve the way it combats international cybercrime.
The six new positions represent a nearly 40% increase of the FBI’s cyber assistant legal attachés (ALATs) and will include new postings in New Delhi, Rome and Brasilia, an agency spokesperson told CyberScoop exclusively. The increase brings the total number of cyber-focused FBI agents deployed to U.S. embassies to 22.
Enabled by digital infrastructure dispersed across the world, cyber criminal operations increasingly involve victims and perpetrators in wildly disparate locations, making it difficult for domestic law enforcement agencies to coordinate their investigations and to collect perishable evidence.
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The FBI is adding more cyber-focused agents to U.S. embassies
The FBI is adding more cyber-focused agents to U.S. embassies
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The FBI is adding more cyber-focused agents to U.S. embassies
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