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omething he advised II Ccc trt-r'ite of in an email that I provided to the interviewing Agents. Additionally, a few weeks after the intrusion, DAD Perez, with others from FBI HQ, were visiting the NYFO on un-related matters, however there was a meeting to discuss the status of the intrusion which I
renced as the reason for a lower program rating for fiscal year 2023. CACHTU initially rated our squad "gold", the highest rating, but DD Dcputy Paul Abbate later changed our rating to "red", the worst rating, and included the reference to Apostlex and its direct involvement in the intrusion as the reas
x News (02/15, Betz, Singman), HuffPost (02/15, Delaney), Washington Post (02/15, Barrett), CBS News (02/15, Legare, Brown), CNN (02/15, Rabinowitz, Perez, Cohen), New York Times (02/15, Thrush), Bloomberg (02/15, Farrell), Axios (02/15, Falconer), ABC News (02/15, Mallin, Scott, et al.), NBC News (02
er 500 victims to restore their computer systems, saving them from ransom demands totaling about $99 million. The article quoted FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate, who said in December, "Helping victims of crime is the FBI's highest priority and is reflected here in the provision of tools to assist those vict
tory was provided by Reuters (09/18, Pitas, Singh), the New York Times (09/18, Thrush), the Washington Post (09/18, Dawsey), CNN (09/18, Rabinowitz, Perez, Lyngaas), Fox News (09/18, Rumpf-Whitten), ABC News (09/18, Date, Barr, Sarnoff), NBC News (09/18, Kosnar, Richards), CBS News (09/18, Staff Writer
rtners to identify their malicious activity, disrupt their hacking campaigns, and bring them to light." The press release quoted FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate: "The disruption of this worldwide botnet is part of the FBI's commitment to using technical operations to help protect victims, expose publicly th
4 UNCLASSIFIED//FOUO (R) provided to the interviewing Agents. This email was sent on 2/28/2023, approximately two weeks after the intrusion. DAD Perez was emailing my, now retired SAC Michael Brodack, IIII , and Richard Ruggieri, who I believe then was the Section Chief of Cyber. As this email is
also referenced as the reason for a lower program rating for fiscal year 2023. CACHTU initially rated our squad "gold", the highest rating, but DD Paul Abbate later changed our rating to "red", the worst rating, and included the reference to ApostleX and its direct involvement in the intrusion as the rea
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