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. […]
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[…] "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." […]
| Sysop: | Keyop |
|---|---|
| Location: | Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK |
| Users: | 465 |
| Nodes: | 16 (3 / 13) |
| Uptime: | 69:41:11 |
| Calls: | 9,412 |
| Calls today: | 4 |
| Files: | 13,575 |
| Messages: | 6,101,243 |