hacker At least 100,000 fake emails have been sent FBI According to the Threat Tracking Service, Saturday’s mail server.
The FBI confirmed the attack in a statement on Saturday and said it was still “an ongoing situation.”
The statement read: “The FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency are aware that the incident this morning involved fake e-mails from the @ic.fbi.gov e-mail account.”
“After the problem was discovered, the affected hardware quickly went offline.”
The Spamhaus Project, a non-profit organization that tracks email cyber threats, said in a statement that there were two email campaigns at 5 am and 7 am on Saturday.
Based on telemetry data, Spamhaus believes that at least 100,000 mailboxes have been compromised, but stated that “the campaign may be much larger.”
It said that the recipient address appeared to have been deleted from the American Internet Number Registry (ARIN), which is also the Canadian Internet Registry.
The FBI did not explain the reasoning behind the email because this is an ongoing situation.
According to Spamhaus, although the FBI is part of the Department of Justice, the subject of these e-mails is “emergency: threat actors in the system”, warning of possible cyber attacks and signing the Department of Homeland Security’s signature.
The emails also pointed out that Vinny Troia was a “threat actor” associated with the hacker group The Dark Overlord.
In fact, Troia is the founder of the network security company Night Lion Security, which released a detailed report on “Dark Lord” in 2020.
Spamhaus stated that these emails may be a “role assassination” of Troia by hacker groups.
The Night Lion report stated that the organization was led by 19-year-old Christopher Meinuer, responsible for 30% of non-credit card global data breaches from 2016 to 2020, and ransomed Disney and Netflix in 2017.
According to reports, Maynor lives in Calgary.
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