FBI Opens Mini-City to Train Cyberattack Investigations

Colleagues, a note for cybersecurity: the FBI in Huntsville has opened the Kinetic Cyber Range — a replica town for hands-on training.

- Includes houses, a hotel, a gas station, a store, a hospital, a courthouse and an electrical grid with actual hardware.
- Features a data center with over 200 physical servers emulating enterprise environments.
- The range exercises ransomware and digital forensics scenarios; more than 1,400 staff and partners have been trained.
- Data extraction sometimes uses tools that exploit zero-day vulnerabilities, raising ethical concerns.

Why it matters: realistic training enhances preparedness for real incidents.

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