FBI 'recognized and addressed' suspicious cyber exercise on its networks, company spokesperson says

The FBI “recognized and addressed suspicious actions” on its networks, an company spokesperson mentioned on Thursday, including that the bureau had “leveraged all technical capabilities to reply.”

The spokesperson declined to supply any particulars as to the character of the exercise, when it was recognized, or the place inside the FBI’s laptop networks.

The suspicious exercise focused a community inside the company associated to wiretaps and intelligence surveillance, in response to media stories. Reuters couldn’t independently confirm the reporting.

US authorities networks are routinely focused by quite a lot of hackers. In November, the Congressional Finances Workplace, liable for offering key {financial} analysis information to lawmakers, notified a number of congressional places of work that its information might have been uncovered to hackers after a “cyber incident.”

In August, Politico revealed that the Administrative Workplace of the US Courts, which manages the federal court docket submitting system, decided in July 2025 {that a} hack may have uncovered delicate court docket data throughout a number of US states.