FBI Investigates Mobile Voting Intrusion
Saturday, 05 October 2019
A group tried to access West Virginia’s mobile voting app in 2018; now, the FBI is looking into what actually happened. West Virginia’s mobile voting app is the latest target of an FBI investigation into attempts to hack the 2018 midterm elections through Voatz, an experimental app that lets voters who are active military or
- Published in Strategies
FBI Issues Relationship Fraud/Confidence Scheme Warning
Wednesday, 07 August 2019
Criminals are getting increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to commit fraud and recruit ‘money mules,’ according to the FBI. The FBI has issued a warning on the growing sophistication of criminals creating false online personas to launch confidence schemes, commit romance fraud, and recruit “money mules,” or individuals tasked with carrying illegal sums or criminal
- Published in Attacks
FBI Publishes GandCrab Decryption Keys
Wednesday, 17 July 2019
Publishing the keys should render existing versions of the ransomware far less dangerous for victims. What happens when malware retires? In the case of ransomware package GandCrab, the whole world learns your secrets. In a July 15 announcement, the FBI shared the decryption keys for multiple versions of GandCrab, rendering future attacks using these versions
- Published in Attacks
FBI Warns of Dangers in 'Safe' Websites
Tuesday, 11 June 2019
Criminals are using TLS certificates to convince users that fraudulent sites are worthy of their trust.
- Published in Attacks
Oklahoma Data Leak Compromises Years of FBI Data
Thursday, 17 January 2019
The Oklahoma Securities Commission accidentally leaked 3 TB of information, including data on years of FBI investigations. Researchers have disclosed a huge leak of government data stemming from the Oklahoma Securities Commission. As discovered by UpGuard researcher Greg Pollock, 3 TB of data was exposed, including millions of files, many of which pertained to FBI investigations. The data was
- Published in Threats, Threats Analysis