According to a recent announcement, Kristina Littman will be SEC’s new chief of the Division of Enforcement’s Cyber Unit. Littman will be taking over from Robert Cohen, who left the agency in August to work in the private sector.

Littman holds a J.D and an M.B.A from the School of Law at Rutgers University. Before joining the SEC, she had practiced at a law firm specializing in corporate and securities litigation.

Littman joined the SEC in 2010 as a staff attorney, and got promoted to become a senior advisor to the agency’s chairman, Jay Clayton, in 2017. In that capacity, the SEC said she has advised Clayton on regulatory and policy relating to cryptocurrencies and digital assets. She was as well advising him on international affairs, trading and markets.

The Cyber Unit was founded in 2017, as a means to deal with cybersecurity issues. The unit was to protect investors from deviant members of the developing blockchain and crypto industry.

Under Cohen’s regime, the unit pursued actions against ICOs the agency deemed fraudulent. Littman will inherit all the notable ongoing crypto lawsuits, including Telegram’s SEC-brought case over its gram token and many others.

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