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The FBI MoneyPak Ransomware, also known as Reveton Ransomware, is a ransomware that starts by purporting to be from a national police agency (like the American Federal Bureau of Investigation) and that they have locked the computer or smartphone due to "illegal activities" and demands a ransom payment via GreenDot MoneyPak cards in order to release the device.
The first, the FBI said, is a “fabricated news clip purporting to be a terrorist warning issued by the FBI.”That fake news clip reports falsely that the FBI purportedly stated that Americans ...
The FBI has identified 17 common techniques that criminals are using to exploit generative AI technologies, particularly deepfakes, for fraudulent activities. Here is a comprehensive list of these ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
The first, the FBI said, is a “fabricated newsclip purporting to be a terrorist warning issued by the FBI.” That fake news clip reports falsely that the FBI purportedly stated that Americans ...
Library warrant canary relying on active removal designed by Jessamyn West. A warrant canary is a method by which a communications service provider aims to implicitly inform its users that the provider has been served with a government subpoena despite legal prohibitions on revealing the existence of the subpoena.
On November 13, 2021, a hacker named Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, going by his alias "Pompompurin", compromised the FBI's external email system, sending thousands of messages warning of a cyberattack by cybersecurity CEO Vinny Troia who was falsely suggested to have been identified as part of The Dark Overlord hacking group by the United States Department of Homeland Security.
August 2010 – After the Federal Bureau of Investigation requested that Wikipedia remove the FBI seal from Wikipedia (on grounds that the high-resolution graphic could facilitate creation of fake FBI badges) Wikimedia Foundation lawyer Mike Godwin sent a letter to the Bureau, denying their request and contending that the FBI had misinterpreted ...