Critical Releases in Homeland Security: February 12, 2020

From the Introduction: "This year's Internet Crime Report highlights the IC3's [Internet Crime Complaint Center] efforts to monitor trending scams such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), Ransomware, Elder Fraud, and Tech Support Fraud. As the report indicates, in 2019, IC3 received a total of 467,361 complaints with reported losses exceeding $3.5 billion. The most prevalent crime types reported were Phishing/Vishing/Smishing/Pharming, Non-Payment/Non-Delivery, Extortion, and Personal Data Breach. The top three crime types with the highest reported losses were BEC, Confidence/Romance Fraud, and Spoofing. More details on each of these scams can be found in this report."

From the Document: "The United States is facing increasingly aggressive and complex threats from foreign intelligence services, as well as state and non-state actors. To anticipate and deter these threats, the U.S. Government continues to address its fundamental, core counterintelligence missions: identifying, assessing, and neutralizing foreign intelligence activities and capabilities in the United States; mitigating insider threats, countering espionage and assassination attempts by foreign intelligence services from occurring on U.S. soil and abroad; and protecting U.S. sensitive and classified information and sensitive facilities from technical penetrations or espionage. This 'National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States of America, 2020-2022' presents a new perspective on how to effectively address foreign intelligence threats as a nation. Five strategic objectives encompass the most critical areas where foreign intelligence services are targeting the United States: Critical Infrastructure; Key U.S. Supply Chains; the U.S. Economy; American Democracy; and Cyber and Technical Operations."