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US prosecutors have charged three members of an Eastern European criminal organization which has ties to Iran's government with conspiring to assassinate a journalist and activist who is a US citizen, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Friday. Rafat Amirov, Polad Omarov and Khalid Mehdiyev were charged with murder-for-hire and…

When the US Department of Justice revealed on January 21 that its investigators had found classified materials in Joe Biden’s Delaware home, there was outrage – or, to be more accurate in most cases faux outrage – in Republican party circles. They wasted no time in demanding further investigation into…

The FBI spent months spying on the ransomware group Hive and secretly helped victims before shutting the entire operation down.

‘We hacked the hackers,’ says deputy attorney general of group that has received over $100m in extortion payments from victims

Bureau says its intervention saved more than 300 entities from having to pay ransom fees

US officials say Hive ransomware network extorted more than $100m from victims in more than 80 countries.

Attorney General Merrick Garland and other U.S. officials say the FBI has at least temporarily dismantled the network of a prolific ransomware gang it infiltrated last year, saving victims including hospitals and school districts a potential $130 million in ransom payments

The U.S. government estimates that Hive has targeted more than 1,500 companies in over 80 countries.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump, Joe Biden and now Mike Pence join a long line of U.S. officials investigated for mishandling classified material. A look at dozens of similar cases over decades shows that the Justice Department’s decision to press charges is rarely as simple as it might seem.