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Vinny Troia, the cybersecurity researcher mentioned in a fake alert gushed out of the FBI’s email system, says it’s just one of a string of jabs from a childish but cybercriminally talented tormentor.
Someone appears to have hacked an FBI server just for lulz. At least, that’s what the supposed target of the email hack believes.
To hack an FBI email system, it takes a lot of motivation, even more technical skill, and, perhaps, a dash of humor. Over the weekend, someone—or a team of someones—compromised an FBI email system and sent out a flurry of bogus messages to state and local law enforcement about a supposed cyberattack.
Nearly one billion people in China had their personal data leaked, and it’s been online for more than a year
A massive online database apparently containing the personal information of up to one billion Chinese citizens was left unsecured and publicly accessible for more than a year — until an anonymous user in a hacker forum offered to sell the data and brought it to wider attention last week.
Vinny Troia, a cybersecurity researcher and founder of dark web intelligence firm Shadowbyte, said he first discovered the database “around January” while searching for open databases online.
Read the story: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/05/china/china-billion-people-data-leak-intl-hnk/index.html
The Shanghai police records—containing the names, government ID numbers, phone numbers and incident reports of nearly 1 billion Chinese citizens—were stored securely, according to the cybersecurity experts.
What is likely one of history’s largest heists of personal data—and the largest known cybersecurity breach in China—occurred because of a common vulnerability that left the data open for the taking on the internet, say cybersecurity experts who discovered the security flaw earlier this year.
Read the full story here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-police-database-was-left-open-online-for-over-a-year-enabling-leak-11657119903
Hackers compromised the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s external email system on Saturday, sending spam emails to potentially thousands of people and companies with a faked warning of a cyberattack.
The FBI said in a statement that the fake emails were sent from the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal system used to communicate with state and local officials, not part of the FBI’s larger corporate email service.
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.
Read the full article here: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacker-takes-fbi-email-server-blasts-spam-thousands-rcna5530
Pranks are super funny when they’re pulled on the FB freaking I, right?
A suspected group of hackers gained access to an FBI email server and sent “at least” 100,000 spam messages. The emails came with the subject line “Urgent: Threat actor in systems,” which seems like it would be a pretty distressing email to get from the FBI.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) email servers were hacked to distribute spam email impersonating FBI warnings that the recipients’ network was breached and data was stolen.
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Rioters who breached the U.S. Capitol building have been spotted sitting at congressional desks with physical access to desktop computers and other devices. According to experts, there’s a low risk that the rioting will pose a direct threat to the security of the Capitol’s computer networks or information on devices.