Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS)
About CCIPS
About CCIPS
The Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section pursues three overarching goals:
- To deter and disrupt computer and intellectual property crime by bringing and supporting key investigations and prosecutions
- To guide the proper collection of electronic evidence by investigators and prosecutors,
- To provide technical and legal advice and assistance to agents and prosecutors in the U.S. and around the world.
Leadership
Leadership
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News
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Following his extradition from Ireland, Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko, 44, a Ukrainian national, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a conspiracy to...
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Yesterday, the U.S. Departments of Justice and Homeland Security seized the domains CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com, which are domains that were being used to publish thousands of digitally forged...
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A U.S.-based technology company, Vercel Inc., agreed today to a enter a Stipulated Dismissal with the United States to resolve civil contempt proceedings related to Vercel’s failure to...
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A Romanian national was sentenced yesterday to 56 months in prison in connection with an online intrusion into an Oregon state government office in 2021 and other cyber-attacks...
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A Georgia woman was sentenced today to 20 months in prison and three years of supervised release for cyberstalking, transmitting threats to kidnap or injure in interstate commerce...
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A federal jury convicted Sohaib Akhter, 34, of Alexandria, Virgina, today on charges of conspiracy to commit computer fraud, password trafficking, and possession of a firearm by a...