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FBI Email System Hacked
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) email system had reportedly suffered a hack on Saturday morning amid several reports of messages sent from the agency’s email infrastructure purporting to be a warning from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) about a cyberattack.
The Spamhaus Project, an international nonprofit organization based in Andorra and Switzerland that tracks spam, reported on Twitter that its analysis had shown the unusual emails are being sent from accounts “scraped” from the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) database.
“We have been made aware of ‘scary’ emails sent in the last few hours that purport to come from the FBI/DHS [Department of Homeland Security],” the Spamhaus Project wrote on Twitter.
“While the emails are indeed being sent from infrastructure that is owned by the FBI/DHS (the LEEP portal), our research shows that these emails *are* fake.”
Some social media users reported receiving the strangely worded email, which refers to “a sophisticated chain attack” and references “the extortion gang TheDarkOverlord.”
The email originated from the address eims@ic.fbi.gov and was signed with the message “Stay safe” and claimed to be from DHS, adding the term “Cyber Threat Detection and Analysis” and “Network Analysis Group” to the end of the message.
“We highly recommend you to check your systems and IDS monitoring. Beware this threat actor is currently working under inspection of the NCCIC, as we are dependent on some of his intelligence research we can not interfere physically within 4 hours, which could be enough time to cause severe damage to your infrastructure,” the email read
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