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The FBI has to date, despite a court order, declined to provide the complete code [3] in a child sex abuse case involving the Tor anonymity network. [4] On May 12, 2016 Mozilla filed an amicus curiae brief inasmuch as the FBI's exploit against the Mozilla Firefox web browsers potentially puts millions of users at risk.
Similarly if a person is visiting a site with malicious content, the person may become victim to a drive-by download attack. That is, the malicious content may be able to exploit vulnerabilities in the browser or plugins to run malicious code without the user's knowledge. [3] A drive-by install (or installation) is a similar event.
In December 2016, the United States FBI and DHS issued a Joint Analysis Report which included attribution of Agent.BTZ to one or more "Russian civilian and military intelligence Services (RIS)." [ 6 ] In order to try to stop the spread of the worm, the Pentagon banned USB drives, and disabled the Windows autorun feature.
In March 2020, the FBI issued a warning that members of the FIN7 cybercrime group had been targeting companies in the retail, restaurant, and hotel industries with BadUSB attacks designed to deliver REvil or BlackMatter ransomware. [6] Packages have been sent to employees in IT, executive management, and human resources departments. [6]
LulzSec claimed to have hacked local InfraGard chapter sites, a non-profit organization affiliated with the FBI. [37] The group leaked some of InfraGard member e-mails and a database of local users. [71] The group defaced the website posting the following message, "LET IT FLOW YOU STUPID FBI BATTLESHIPS", accompanied with a video. LulzSec posted:
The FBI is investigating an Aug. 11 drive-by shooting that targeted a California activist with close ties to Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was fatally shot last year in a ...
Maia arson crimew [a] (formerly known as Tillie Kottmann; born August 7, 1999) is a Swiss developer and computer hacker.Crimew is known for leaking source code and other data from companies such as Intel and Nissan, and for discovering a 2019 copy of the United States government's No Fly List on an unsecured cloud server owned by CommuteAir.
One of the earliest and most notorious black hat hacks was the 1979 hacking of The Ark by Kevin Mitnick. The Ark computer system was used by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) to develop the RSTS/E operating system software. The WannaCry ransomware attack in May 2017 is another example of black hat hacking. Around 400,000 computers in 150 ...