There is a terrifying and highly effective "method" that criminal hackers are now using to harvest sensitive customer data from Internet service providers, phone companies and social media firms....
Read moreRed Cross Hack Linked to Iranian Influence Operation?
February 16 2022A network intrusion at the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) in January led to the theft of personal information on more than 500,000 people receiving assistance from...
Read moreUsing Foreign Nationals to Bypass US Surveillance Restrictions
January 13 2022Remember when the US and Australian police surreptitiously owned and operated the encrypted cell phone app ANOM? They arrested 800 people in 2021 based on that operation.
New documents...
Read moreStolen Bitcoins Returned
December 22 2021The US has returned $154 million in bitcoins stolen by a Sony employee. However, on December 1, following an investigation in collaboration with Japanese law enforcement authorities, the FBI seized...
Read moreLaw Enforcement Access to Chat Data and Metadata
December 10 2021A January 2021 FBI document outlines what types of data and metadata can be lawfully obtained by the FBI from messaging apps. Rolling Stone broke the story...
Read moreCanada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”
December 8 2021A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United...
Read moreWire Fraud Scam Upgraded with Bitcoin
November 16 2021The FBI has issued a bulletin describing a bitcoin variant of a wire fraud scam:
As the agency describes it, the scammer will contact their victim and somehow...
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Hoax Email Blast Abused Poor Coding in FBI Website
November 13 2021The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirmed today that its fbi.gov domain name and Internet address were used to blast out thousands of fake emails about a cybercrime investigation....
Read moreDHS warning about hackers in your network? Don’t panic!
November 13 2021Fake warnings and false accusations - it's a "call to distraction"
Read moreHow the FBI Gets Location Information
October 27 2021Vice has a detailed article about how the FBI gets data from cell phone providers like AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, based on a leaked (I think) 2019 139-page presentation.
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