Hacker sends spam to 100,000 from FBI email address
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said they were aware of the fake emails sent from the FBI account, but declined to share more information.
Kevin Collier, NBC News
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An apparently malicious hacker sent spam emails from an FBI email server Friday night to at least 100,000 people, an email spam watchdog group has found.
The person’s motives are unknown,and it was not immediately clear the extent to which the hacker gained access to the FBI’s email system. The email message was a bizarre, technically incoherent warning that made reference to cybersecurity writer Vinny Troia as well as a cybercriminal group called The Dark Overlord. Troia’s company, Night Lion Security, published research on TheDark Overlord in January.
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The hacker signed off as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Threat Detection and Analysis Group, which hasn’t existed for at least two years.
