Source: United States Department of Justice
DENVER – The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado along with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office announces that Mohamed Elias Omer, 35, was indicted by a federal grand jury on twelve counts of illegal remunerations to induce Medicaid beneficiaries to attend Nadina Adult Daycare Center, LLC., located in Arapahoe County.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
CINCINNATI – A federal jury found an Arizona man guilty on all counts for his role in leading narcotics and money laundering conspiracies. The government has seized more than 162 kilograms of cocaine, three kilograms of fentanyl and $1.4 million of bulk cash in total.
Source: United States Army
HLUSAKA, Zambia – Representatives from the North Carolina National Guard, Botswana, Malawi, Moldova and Zambia gathered for the North Carolina State Partnership Program Domestic Response Workshop at Zambia Army Headquarters June 8-12.
Hosted by the Zambian Defence Force, the workshop marked the first time a Department of War National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program partner nation with North Carolina hosted a multinational event on its own soil. Moldova participated virtually.
The workshop highlighted each nation’s past disaster responses, civilian-military collaboration and opportunities for regional disaster preparedness and future cooperation.
“This is the first time we have had an opportunity to gather five partner nations in one location outside of the United States,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Aaron Youngblood, North Carolina National Guard chief of domestic operations. “It was an amazing opportunity for us to come together in Zambia and focus on something different from what we experienced when we hosted it in North Carolina.”
The discussions highlighted a growing emphasis on preparedness, mitigation and emergency management rather than responding only after disasters occur.
“The frequency and intensity of disasters are continuously increasing,” said Ryan Kenney, North Carolina Emergency Management deputy branch manager of emergency services. “Our partners are taking a proactive approach to emergency management rather than reacting to a disaster.”
Throughout the workshop, participants shared after-action reports from past disasters, exchanged lessons learned and discussed interagency coordination frameworks between civilian and military agencies.
Representatives found that despite geographic differences, they face similar disaster challenges, including floods and droughts.
“Disasters do not respect borders, whether you are prepared or not,” Youngblood said. “They happen, and there are many commonalities among the nations we are partnered with.”
While each nation operates under different domestic response structures, participants agreed that continued collaboration and information sharing are essential to improving disaster preparedness.
For the Zambian government, hosting the workshop provided an opportunity to deepen relationships with its SPP partners and strengthen regional disaster response networks.
“We launched the partnership [with North Carolina in 2024] and agreed that we would share information,” said Norman Chipakupaku, National Disaster Response Management Division national coordinator. “This workshop came at the right time. We want to continue sharing experiences, prepare for future disasters and help build resilience within our countries.”
As the partner nations concluded the workshop, representatives emphasized the growing multinational relationships through the North Carolina State Partnership Program and their shared commitment to building resilient communities with a common understanding of disaster preparedness and response.
“This highlights the importance of the partnership and Zambia’s ownership to host an event like this,” said U.S. Army Col. Patrick Szvetitz, North Carolina National Guard director of strategic plans and policy. “The maturity of our State Partnership Program is evident during this workshop, where Zambia can host four countries in person and one virtually to improve our emergency response to the people we serve.”
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Source: United States Army
LINCOLN, Neb. – Cyber Tatanka 2026, a massive cybersecurity exercise designed to test and strengthen the digital defenses of critical infrastructure, concluded June 12 after two weeks of simulated, highly sophisticated cyberattacks.
The fifth annual exercise brought together 243 participants from federal, state, military and private sector organizations at Kiewit Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. The June 1-12 event served as a collaborative proving ground for defensive cyber operations.
“Cyber Tatanka is Nebraska’s premier defensive cyber range exercise,” organizers noted in planning documents, highlighting its mission to safeguard regional networks against emerging threats.
“When this started five years ago Cyber Tatanka was a military-led event,” said Brig. Gen. Robert Hargens, Nebraska Air National Guard assistant adjutant general. “It has since transformed into a civilian-led event. There’s an incredible amount of planning and work that goes into doing this event, so I want to thank Cyber Strong Nebraska for putting this on.”
The importance of the cyber realm is echoed in the exercise’s name. Tatanka is a word used by members of the Lakota tribes to describe the bison that ranged across a seven-state region of the central and northern American Great Plains, said Ryan Carlson, a retired Nebraska Army National Guard major. Carlson helped develop the original exercise concept with several leaders of Nebraska public infrastructure organizations to give cyber defense specialists an opportunity to learn more about network protection efforts and collaborate with fellow computer and network defense specialists, while also testing their organization’s cyber response plans in a safe yet realistic virtual environment.
“The indigenous people relied on the bison for their way of life. It was their food. It was their shelter. It was their clothing. It was their tools,” Carlson said. “It was something they greatly respected, and it was something they realized they needed to protect to support their way of life.”
“We see interconnected systems as kind of that same thing,” Carlson added. “Interconnected systems are extremely important to maintaining our way of life. And they are something that we must protect.”
The exercise is led by Cyber Strong Nebraska, a nonprofit organization established to plan and conduct it. The Nebraska National Guard participates in and supports the Army’s Innovative Response Training program and is one of several major partners, including multiple private, public and educational institutions.
The first week of the event focused heavily on academic training and network validation. The second week shifted to a live-fire range phase hosted on a simulated business enterprise network provided by Cloud Cyber Range. Defensive teams faced daily vignettes with threat actors that grew progressively more sophisticated.
“The person is the program,” said Dana Turner, a director for Cyber Strong Nebraska. “If you’re not stress-testing your people on realistic conditions on a regular basis, you have no idea how they will perform when it actually matters.”
The exercise drew key international partners through the Department of War National Guard Bureau State Partnership Program. Two service members from Tanzania and one from the Czech Republic integrated into the defensive enclaves to collaborate and share best practices with the Nebraska National Guard teams.
The exercise’s participating countries included the United States, Austria, the Czech Republic, Jordan, Chile and Tanzania. Domestically, attendees spanned five states and territories: Texas, Colorado, Vermont, Nebraska and Guam.
“Seeing the threats in real time and going through the tools that we have together has helped me understand it better,” said Czech Armed Forces 2nd Lt. Jakub Richder, an exercise participant who graduated last year with a master’s degree in the cyber defense field and joined the Czech’s 92nd Cyber Warfare Group. “This has been a great experience, seeing how another military works and how they communicate. This experience will definitely help me come back home as a better cyber soldier.”
A broad coalition of Nebraska infrastructure and business pillars anchored the civilian side.
“Nation states used to go after each other’s military targets and government systems,” Turner said. “That has shifted. They now go after utilities in small Nebraska towns, the regional hospital, the corner pharmacy, the community bank. The target set has expanded to include everyone, people who never signed up to be on the front lines of a geopolitical conflict.”
“You cannot defend a threat landscape that broad with a single organization, a single organization or chain of command, you need a coalition,” Turner added.
During its five-year run from 2022 to 2026, Cyber Tatanka has trained 750 military, civilian, academic and government professionals. That cohort includes 250 U.S. military personnel and more than 50 international allied military personnel.
“We are stronger together than we are apart,” Turner said. “Cyber Tatanka is the answer to that problem.”
Related Links
The Official Website of the National Guard | NationalGuard.mil
State Partnership Program | NationalGuard.mil
The National Guard on Facebook | Facebook.com/TheNationalGuard
The National Guard on Flickr | Flickr.com/TheNationalGuard
The National Guard on Instagram | Instagram.com/us.nationalguard
The National Guard on X | X.com/USNationalGuard
The National Guard on YouTube | YouTube.com/TheNationalGuard
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Baltimore, Maryland – A New York man received a federal-prison term for mimicking popular crypto influencers as he carried out a wire-fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Noman Saleem, 39, of Queens and Levittown, to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, in connection with the scam.
Source: United States Department of Justice
Baltimore, Maryland – A New York man received a federal-prison term for mimicking popular crypto influencers as he carried out a wire-fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Noman Saleem, 39, of Queens and Levittown, to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, in connection with the scam.
Source: United States Department of Justice
Seattle – A 21-year-old resident of Belfair, Washington, was arrested Friday June 19, 2026, in a fast-moving FBI investigation of a plot to attack the June 14, 2026, UFC event at the White House, announced First Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd.
Source: United States Department of Justice Criminal Division
Today, the Justice Department announced the seizure of a cloud computing account used by subsidiaries of the Huione Group, a Cambodia-based corporate conglomerate. These subsidiaries are alleged to have assisted individuals and organizations in transferring proceeds of cryptocurrency investment frauds, cyber scams, and other criminal activities on cryptocurrency blockchains and allowing for the conversion of the proceeds of these schemes to the legitimate banking sector undetected.The seized account hosted backend infrastructure for the subsidiaries.
“Today’s seizure strikes a blow against one of the world’s most prolific criminal marketplaces,” said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The Huione Group used this cloud computing account as part of a technological backbone that allowed billions in fraud proceeds to be transferred, moved, and concealed — much of it stolen through Southeast Asian scam centers. Seizures of these marketplaces is critical in the fight against fraud that affects so many Americans, and to stop avenues for criminal proceeds to be laundered.”
“Today’s seizure demonstrates that law enforcement will use all tools at its disposal to protect Americans from criminals seeking to exploit them,” said U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian for the Northern District of California. “We will not allow individuals or companies to exploit our country’s technology to defraud hardworking Americans.”
“The FBI continually leverages its global reach to combat criminals targeting the American people,” said Assistant Director Heith Janke of the FBI’s Criminal Division. “This seizure demonstrates our commitment to disrupting every component of the illegal ecosystem and working with our partners to prevent further victimization from scams.”
“The FBI is committed to disrupting the infrastructure and services that cybercriminals rely on to profit from their illegal activity,” said Assistant Director Brett Leatherman of the FBI’s Cyber Division. “Today’s action targets a key enabler of cyber-enabled fraud and money laundering schemes, demonstrating that the FBI will pursue not only the perpetrators, but also the services that support their criminal operations.”
According to court documents, the seized account was used to help operate Huione Guarantee, also known as Haowang Guarantee. Huione Guarantee is alleged to have operated Telegram channels that contained discussions regarding illicit products and/or services, ranging from the sale of stolen credit card and identity information, the fruits of malware-enabled thefts, the procurement of individuals for human trafficking schemes, as well as assistance with laundering the proceeds of romance and investment scams. Huione Guarantee also provided escrow services for criminals transacting on its platforms to facilitate transactions, including money launderers laundering cryptocurrency. In doing so, Huione Guarantee facilitated the movement of considerable funds stolen by Southeast Asian scam centers.
Law enforcement has continuously traced cyber-enabled fraud proceeds to cryptocurrency addresses attributed to the Huione Group, including Huione Guarantee, where the funds were then further laundered. Reports of cyber-enabled fraud involving cryptocurrency continue to increase, with complainants reporting over $7.2 billion in losses to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2025 due to cryptocurrency investment fraud alone.
Last October, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule severing Huione Group from the U.S. financial system. In this rule, FinCEN found the Huione Group to be a primary money laundering concern pursuant to section 311 of the USA Patriot Act, citing its significant role in laundering proceeds of cryptocurrency investment fraud, cyber heists conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and proceeds of other cyber scams. Today, FinCEN issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) to amend this rule’s definition of the Huione Group to include H-Pay Service PLC, among other changes. In its NPRM, FinCEN has assessed H-Pay Service PLC is a component of the Huione Group and of primary money laundering concern.
The FBI’s San Francisco Field Office and IRS Criminal Investigation are investigating the case.
Trial Attorney Ethan Cantor of the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty for the Northern District of California are prosecuting the case. Former CCIPS Trial Attorney Stefanie Schwartz and Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Pastor, formerly in the Northern District of California, provided valuable assistance.
The Department of Justice also thanks the intelligence teams at Chainalysis and Elliptic, and Google’s CyberCrime Investigation Team for voluntarily providing valuable information for this investigation.
CCIPS investigates and prosecutes cybercrime and intellectual property (IP) crime in coordination with domestic and international law enforcement agencies, often with assistance from the private sector. Since 2020, CCIPS has secured the conviction of over 180 cyber and IP criminals, and court orders for the return of over $350 million in victim funds.
If you have been victimized by a cyber-enabled fraud scheme, please report the crime to the IC3 at www.ic3.gov. Law enforcement uses these complaints to investigate crimes, trace stolen funds for investigations and law enforcement action, and build cases against those responsible for the offenses.
This action is part of Operation Riptide, an ongoing FBI campaign targeting the criminal actors, infrastructure, and financial networks behind cybercrime, cyber-enabled crime, and fraud against the American people. Last year, Americans reported over $20 billion in losses to cybercrime, a 26 percent single-year increase. Operation Riptide is the FBI’s sustained enforcement response to that threat.
Source: United States Spaceforce
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson’s strength and conditioning program was recently recognized as the 2025 Department of the Air Force Fitness and Sports Program of the Year for Region 2. The program enhances the operational readiness, lethality, and long-term health of Airmen and Soldiers through tailored fitness coaching and injury prevention.
Source: United States Marines
The U.S. Marine Corps announced in MARADMIN 281/26 that it will fully transition its operational reporting to the Operational Data Integration Nexus (ODIN) on July 7, 2026. The move, authorized by Lt. Gen. Jay M. Bargeron, Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies, and Operations, formally designates ODIN as the official and authoritative platform for operational reporting, marking a pivotal achievement in the Corps’ Force Design modernization efforts.