Government September 19, 2023

How the FBI Fights Back Against Worldwide Cyberattacks

5 min read - In the worldwide battle against malicious cyberattacks, there is no organization more central to the fight than the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And recent years have proven that the bureau still has some surprises up its sleeve. In early…

News January 23, 2023

Alleged FBI database breach exposes agents and InfraGard

4 min read - Recently the feds suffered a big hack, not once, but twice. First, the FBI-run InfraGard program suffered a breach. InfraGard aims to strengthen partnerships with the private sector to share information about cyber and physical threats. That organization experienced a…

News June 15, 2022

Cyber threats target US election officials with phishing campaign

2 min read - On March 29, the FBI warned of an ongoing and widespread phishing campaign targeting U.S. election officials. Using false invoice inquiries and breached email accounts, attackers have attempted to steal officials’ login credentials in at least nine states since October…

News April 20, 2022

FBI releases AvosLocker ransomware advisory

2 min read - On March 17, the FBI, the U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the Department of the Treasury released a joint cybersecurity advisory about AvosLocker, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) affiliate-based group. According to the advisory, AvosLocker has targeted victims across multiple…

Fraud Protection August 13, 2021

Most Digital Attacks Today Involve Social Engineering

3 min read - On May 14, the FBI marked a sobering milestone: the receipt of its six millionth digital crime complaint. It took just 14 months for the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) to reach its new threshold. Digital crime complaints are…

News August 6, 2021

Ransomware Costs Expected to Reach $265 Billion by 2031

2 min read - Think ransomware is expensive now? It’s not predicted to get any cheaper over the next decade. Ransoms could cost victims a collective total of $265 billion by 2031. The estimate is based on the prediction that the price tag will…

News April 30, 2021

Mamba Ransomware Weaponizing DiskCryptor Software, FBI Warns

2 min read - The operators of the Mamba ransomware strain have added weaponized DiskCryptor to their ongoing attacks, the FBI warned. An open-encryption solution, DiskCryptor, is capable of encrypting all disk partitions including the system partition. While not malicious by itself, this enables…

News April 6, 2021

Crypto Malware ‘AppleJeus’ Opens Cryptocurrency Wallets to Thieves

3 min read - Digital attackers used a strain of crypto malware called ‘AppleJeus’ to steal cryptocurrency. In a joint advisory published by the FBI and the Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that the Hidden Cobra…

News February 11, 2021

Malware: Group Targeting Embassies Adds ‘Drovorub’ Campaign

2 min read - Russian digital espionage group Fancy Bear incorporated a new malware threat into their attack campaigns, according to the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI. In their joint advisory last year, the NSA and FBI explained the Linux-based malware — dubbed…

News February 2, 2021

FBI: Watch Out for Spoofed Websites With Deceptive URLS

2 min read - A recent FBI announcement warned that threat actors are creating domains that spoof the law enforcement agency’s official websites. Inside the FBI Announcement On Nov. 23, 2020, the FBI warned that malicious actors were using domain spoofing to look like its real…