FBI Releases 2023 Year in Review

In 2023, the FBI faced a growing and evolving threat spectrum—from an uptick in violent and bias-motivated crimes to increasingly elaborate cyberattacks to a rise in more potent drugs like fentanyl. A look back over the past 12 months shows the diversity of law enforcement and intelligence challenges facing the 115-year-old Bureau.

While the year opened with the FBI and our international partners dismantling an advanced ransomware network that cost victims more than $100 million, the Bureau’s 38,000 agents, analysts, and professional staff remained fully focused on working with all our partner agencies to carry out the FBI’s broad mission to protect Americans and uphold the Constitution.

“The men and women of the FBI work tirelessly every day to protect the American people from what is really a staggering array of threats,” Director Christopher Wray said in remarks to a Congressional panel in July. “And we don’t do that work alone.”

Read more: Homeland Security Today