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Secret Service Consolidates Electronic And Financial Crimes Units Into Cyber Fraud Task Force

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, July 10th, 2020

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Secret Service Consolidates Electronic And Financial Crimes Units Into Cyber Fraud Task Force

The Secret Service has merged two task forces focused on electronic and financial crimes into a new Cyber Fraud Task Forces (CFTFs), a recognition traditional cyber and financial crimes are converging and that a broader skillset is required for investigating these types of crimes. The new task forces, which combine the Electronic Crimes and Financial Crimes Task Forces, will improve coordination, information sharing, and the use of best practices in the investigation of financially motivated cybercrime, the agency said last…

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