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FBI email server hack was down to "poor code"

15

Nov

2021

Hackers claim that it was insecure code in a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) portal designed to share information with state and local law enforcement authorities that they abused to send thousands of fake emails. The hackers were able to distribute spam email from a legitimate FBI email address, impersonating FBI warnings that falsely claimed […]

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Yes, the FBI held back REvil ransomware keys

22

Sep

2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had the keys to REvil’s ransomware as the cybercriminals were locking up company after company’s data and did not publicly share the keys. What were they thinking? What were they protecting? The Washington Post reports the FBI had secretly obtained the digital key to the Russia-based ransomware group, REvil, […]

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FBI Warns of Employee Credential Phishing via Phone, Chat

18

Jan

2021

Taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has forced the broad adoption of telework, cyber-criminals and threat actors are attempting to exploit possible misconfiguration and lack of monitoring for remote network access and user privileges. An observed shift in tactics, the FBI says, is the targeting of all employee credentials, not exclusively of those individuals […]

Category Cyber-crime Phishing Virus & Malware Vulnerabilities Written by Feedproxy 0 Comments

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