Eric Tucker

1 month ago | washingtontimes.com | Eric Tucker |Dake Kang

WASHINGTON — Twelve Chinese nationals - including mercenary hackers, law enforcement officers and employees of a private hacking company - have been charged in connection with global cybercrime campaigns targeting dissidents, news organizations, U.S. agencies and universities, the Justice Department says.

Jan 3, 2025 | washingtontimes.com | Eric Tucker |Jim Mustian |Kevin McGill |Jack Brook

- Associated Press - NEW ORLEANS — Street performers and football fans returned to New Orleans streets as the city inched back toward normalcy while mourning victims of the deadly New Year’s rampage in which an Army veteran plowed a pickup truck into revelers. Fourteen people were killed in the attack along Bourbon Street that officials said was inspired by the Islamic State militant group.

Jan 2, 2025 | washingtontimes.com | Eric Tucker |Jim Mustian |Kevin McGill |Jack Brook

NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans pressed ahead with plans to reopen the city’s famed Bourbon Street on Thursday as investigators kept digging into the background of the U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers, killing 15 people. The FBI said it was investigating the attack, which occurred when 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar steered around a police blockade, as a terrorist act. Investigators believe the driver was inspired by the Islamic State group.

Jan 2, 2025 | washingtontimes.com | Ellen Knickmeyer |Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says it recovered the stark black banner of the Islamic State extremist group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year’s partygoers in New Orleans’ French Quarter Wednesday, killing 15 people. The investigation is expected to look in part at any support or inspiration that driver Shamsud-Din Jabbar may have drawn from that violent Middle East-based group or any of at least 19 affiliated groups around the world.

Dec 31, 2024 | washingtontimes.com | Eric Tucker

WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers remotely accessed several U.S. Treasury Department workstations and unclassified documents after compromising a third-party software service provider, the agency said Monday.