Hackers compromise FBI email system, send thousands of messages
(Reuters) -Hackers compromised a Federal Bureau of Investigation email system on Saturday and despatched tens of thousands of messages warning of a possible cyberattack, in line with the corporate and security specialists.
Fake emails appeared to return again from a dependable FBI email sort out ending in @ic.fbi.gov, the FBI acknowledged in a press launch.
Although the {{hardware}} impacted by the incident “was taken offline shortly upon discovery of the problem,” the FBI acknowledged, “This is an ongoing state of affairs.”
The hackers despatched tens of thousands of emails warning of a possible cyberattack, threat-tracking group Spamhaus Project acknowledged on its Twitter account.
A duplicate of an email posted by Spamhaus on Twitter confirmed a subject line of “Urgent: Threat actor in strategies” and appeared to complete with a sign-off from the Department of …