FBI and Cyber Crime

FBI’s cyber mission:

•Stop those behind most serious computer intrusions and the spread of malicious code

•To identify and thwart online sexual predators who use the Internet to meet and exploit children

•To counteract operations that target US intellectual property, endangering or national security and competitiveness

•To dismantle national and transnational organized criminal enterprises engaging in Internet fraud

What is the FBI doing?

• Pose undercover as teenage girls in online chat rooms to try to catch internet predators.

• Trying to help internet scam victims and find who scammed them.

• Breaking passwords and decrypting files to find out what suspected hackers are doing

The US Immigration & Customs Enforcement Agency

What are they involved in?• Possession, manufacture and distribution of images of

child abuse• International money laundering and illegal cyber-banking• Illegal arms trafficking and illegal export of

strategic/controlled commodities• Drug trafficking• General smuggling (animals, stolen art etc)• Intellectual property rights violations (sharing music)• Immigration violations and identity and benefit fraud