The FBI’s Cyber Division released a strategy that organizes its work around disrupting adversaries, supporting victims, expanding partnerships, and strengthening technical and workforce capabilities.
Four pillars structure the FBI Cyber Division’s approach: disrupt adversaries, support victims, increase partnerships, and build cyber capabilities.
The bureau plans targeted workforce development, new investigative tools, and adoption of AI under human review to speed triage and malware analysis.
Strategy ties to recent operations: joint warnings on foreign AI-based campaigns and enforcement actions such as domain seizures linked to China-associated groups.
# What the strategy says
Division's work defending U.S. networks and critical infrastructure. It is organized into four pillars that define priorities and specific objectives the bureau will pursue.
# The four pillars, in plain terms
# What the FBI will actually change
Assistant Director Brett Leatherman summarized the approach: "That mission does not change. How we meet the threat must." He framed the threat as a mix of nation-state actors positioning inside networks and criminal groups targeting shared services, with both increasingly using AI to move faster.
# How the strategy connects to recent FBI work
The strategy aligns with operational steps the FBI has already taken. Examples cited include joint public warnings with the NSA and CISA about China-linked AI distillation campaigns targeting U.S. frontier models, and collaboration with the Department of Justice to seize domains tied to the China-linked QTFY hacking group. The bureau also updated a joint advisory with CISA and EPA on Iranian cyber actors targeting critical infrastructure and coordinated public alerts with CISA about Russian activity.
# Events and leadership visibility
Matthew Fodor (also listed as Matt Fodor), operations director for the FBI's National Security Branch, will deliver a keynote at the Potomac Officers Club's 2026 Intel Summit. The event will cover AI's role in intelligence, OSINT, agentic AI and quantum risk, and cybersecurity considerations in the agentic AI era.
# Immediate implications for partners and defenders
# Bottom line
The FBI's new strategy sets a structured perimeter around how the bureau will investigate, assist victims, coordinate with partners, and invest in people and tools. It links those priorities to concrete objectives—staffing, training, technology upgrades and AI adoption—and reflects actions the FBI has already taken in public warnings and enforcement operations.
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