The FBI is adding resources, building new tools, increasing hiring and expanding collaboration efforts with local groups as part of its Next Generation Cyber Initiative in an effort to overhaul the Bureau’s Cyber Division, according to an article from InformationWeek.
Within the last year alone, the FBI has busted dozens involved in the online trafficking of credit card and bank account data, arrested key members of Anonymous and LulzSec (hacktivist groups), broken up a sophisticated gang of online bank fraudsters, taken down a small-town mayor for hacking a website calling for his recall and worked closely with international officials to disrupt a botnet that had stolen $14 million, InformationWeek reports.