• [Media] 100_000 spam run from real FBI email server

    From Andrzej Adam Filip@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 14 05:39:57 2021
    https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacker-takes-fbi-email-server-blasts-spam-thousands-rcna5530
    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.
    ; Nov. 13, 2021, 9:15 PM UTC / Updated Nov. 13, 2021, 10:25 PM UTC

    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. […]

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59278277
    FBI probes cyber-attack emails sent from internal server

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-aware-investigating-fake-fbi-emails
    FBI aware of and investigating fake FBI emails sent to thousands

    […] "The FBI and CISA are aware of the incident this morning involving
    fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account," the FBI said in a
    statement Saturday. "This is an ongoing situation, and we are not able
    to provide any additional information at this time. The impacted
    hardware was taken offline quickly upon discovery of the issue. We
    continue to encourage the public to be cautious of unknown senders and
    urge you to report suspicious activity to ic3.gov or cisa.gov." […]

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    A. Filip

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