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The Hunt: What we know about suspected New York bomber’s training, motive and targets

By J.J. Green

WASHINGTON — The FBI is scouring New York, New Jersey and beyond for clues in the bombings there last weekend. In this week’s edition of The Hunt, WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green is joined by Scott Stewart, vice president of tactical analysis at Stratfor, who said the evidence so far suggests the suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, invested some time in getting training.

FBI detects Iranian cyber criminals in US systems

By J.J. Green
WASHINGTON — The FBI has detected a group of hackers it believes are using dozens of IP addresses and hundreds of domains hosted in the United States to possibly attack enemies of the Iranian government. A Cyber Division Flash bulletin indicates “a group of malicious cyber actors — likely located in Iran — use Virtual Private Server infrastructure hosted in the United States to compromise government, corporate and academic computer networks based in the Middle East, Europe and the United States.”
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