The FBI's cyber mission is four-fold: first and foremost, to stop those behind the most serious computer intrusions and the spread of malicious code; second, to identify and thwart online sexual predators who use the Internet to meet and exploit children and to produce, possess, or share child pornography; third, to counteract operations that target U.S. intellectual property, endangering our national security and competitiveness; and fourth, to dismantle national and transnational organized criminal enterprises engaging in Internet fraud. Pursuant to the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace signed by the President, the Department of Justice and the FBI lead the national effort to investigate and prosecute cybercrime.
Our Cyber Action Teams, or CATs, are small, highly-trained teams of FBI agents, analysts, and computer forensics and malicious code experts who travel the world on a moment’s notice to respond to fast-moving cyber threats.
An FBI agent takes a call from an Internet scam victim. Down the hall in a computer lab, a police detective poses undercover as a teenage girl in an online chat room. Steps away, a forensic examiner is breaking passwords and decrypting files on a suspected hacker’s computer. Welcome to the front lines of the war on cyber crime.
The FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center have set up a clearinghouse for triaging cyber complaints called the Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3. Based in West Virginia, it works closely with a range of law enforcement agencies and private sector organizations. IC3 also performs analysis and research and releases annual stats.
http://www.fbi.gov/cyberinvest/cyberhome.htm
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