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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert on October 16, urging election officials to guard against phishing attacks launched by a superintelligence.

According to MS NOW, FBI Director Kash Patel has arrived in Russia, preparing to hold a meeting. The news was reposted by the X account clashreport at 00:01 Beijing time on October 15, 2026, and no further details have been disclosed so far.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the execution of a court-authorized seizure operation, blocking malicious cyber actors employed by the Chinese company Yongxin Zhicheng from using two hacking tools for vulnerability scanning and intrusion.

The FBI arrested Zhang Wanying at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday as she was planning to travel to China; the U.S. Attorney's Office charged her with acting as an unregistered foreign agent.

The US FBI has arrested an American woman living in California, accusing her of surveilling Ai Qingde at the instigation of Chinese officials.

According to CBS, on October 4, the day Zhang Wanying was arrested, about 10 FBI agents with a search warrant broke down the door and entered Fatai Miao's residence in Irvine, California. The family denied that the trip to Seattle had political purposes, saying Miao went to China to care for his sick wife.

The US FBI has arrested 34-year-old Zhang Wanying, a former Chinese citizen who holds US citizenship, accusing her of allegedly monitoring and endangering Lai Ching-te's family members in the United States over a long period.

The FBI arrested an 18-year-old Somali-American citizen inspired by ISIS who planned to carry out a mass shooting with an AK47 at the Mall of America in Minnesota.

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), FBI, and other agencies jointly released a formal report on September 8, 2026, stating that Chinese AI companies are conducting industrial-scale distillation activities against leading U.S. AI models.

In a lengthy CNN report, from autumn 2024 to spring 2025, a quadcopter drone suspected of being linked to the Chinese Communist Party repeatedly intruded into restricted airspace over the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The U.S. side employed electronic warfare means to force it to land, detained multiple Chinese citizens in a nearby RV as well as one Chinese woman who had remained in a national park (the latter was later released). The FBI suspects these individuals were connected to Chinese intelligence agencies, and the Chinese embassy denied the allegations.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI announced on Wednesday the seizure of the domain names for two hacking platforms, Qscan and QT Router, alleging they were operated by the Chinese hacking group QTFY and served the Ministry of State Security and the military of China.

FBI Director Patel listed law enforcement cooperation results on the X platform, including the arrest of 300 criminals, the seizure of $300 million in assets, and the advancement of US-China law enforcement cooperation.

On June 10, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the seizure of 13 domain names of fake consulting companies suspected of being supported by Chinese agents, accusing them of using fake job postings to contact current or former U.S. military and government personnel with security clearances in order to steal intelligence.

Mutadi, a suspect involved in the October 7 Gaza massacre, was arrested by the FBI after sneaking into the United States and living there for more than a year.

Ahead of the bail review, the FBI filed a supplemental statement explicitly stating that Zhang Wanying and her companion Miao Fatai had previously been in a romantic relationship.

On March 19, 2025, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a wanted notice, offering a reward of up to $15 million for information on Chinese citizen Liu Baoxia and others, accusing them of allegedly smuggling sensitive electronic components to Iranian military organizations.

The FBI and CISA state that hackers linked to the Chinese government have infiltrated several US telecommunications companies, stealing call records and private communications, and replicating wiretap request information.

The FBI groups the current scam variant — calls from spoofed numbers, transfer to police, presentation of ID documents, video surveillance, and remittance of a security deposit — into a four-stage process.

US FBI official Sarah submitted an encrypted email to Xi Jinping detailing Wang Lijun's monitoring of calls between central leaders. Upon learning of this, Xi Jinping decided to handle the matter personally.

A Chinese couple was arrested at Los Angeles airport while preparing to leave the country. It was found that a relative of the husband worked in a classified U.S. military department, and the couple stole military secrets by carrying them out bit by bit, stored them on disks, and had the husband's younger brother take them back to China. The two were subsequently sentenced.