{"id":21777,"date":"2026-06-13T11:59:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-fbi-built-its-own-replica-small-town-to-simulate-real-world-cyberattacks\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T11:59:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T11:59:36","slug":"the-fbi-built-its-own-replica-small-town-to-simulate-real-world-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/the-fbi-built-its-own-replica-small-town-to-simulate-real-world-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI built its own replica small town to simulate real-world cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is pulling back the curtain on a 22,000 square-foot replica town on its Huntsville, Alabama campus that it built to train law enforcement in simulating and investigating real-world cyberattacks.<\/p>\n

The aim is to teach investigators in a secure environment beyond the classroom by getting hands-on with some of the latest consumer and enterprise technologies, many of which are frequently targeted by malicious hackers. The numbers put the training into context. The FBI’s 2025 Internet Crime Report, drawing on more than one million complaints, logged a record $20.9 billion in U.S. cybercrime losses, a 26% jump over the prior year, with ransomware ranked the top ongoing threat to critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Dubbed the Kinetic Cyber Range, the FBI’s small purpose-built town opened in February 2025 and features fully furnished houses, a hotel, a gas station and grocery mart, a courthouse, a hospital, and a power company — complete with roads and traffic lights — designed to mimic a real U.S. community. Since opening, says the agency, the facility has trained more than 1,400 students, including FBI personnel and partners from other federal and local agencies.<\/p>\n

Each part of the town is wired with functioning devices and systems that behave as they would in a real community or business, while preventing any simulated attacks from spilling out of the facility.<\/p>\n

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