US FBI Systems Are Pwned And Sending Fake Cyberattack Emails

Nowadays, it is a matter of when, not if, a cybercriminal will breach a company or organization. It appears that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is figuring this out the hard way, as a threat actor has been sending emails from the FBI's system infrastructure since early this morning. While this should not be cause for alarm at this time, it is interesting to observe regardless.

After midnight this morning, threat intelligence group Spamhaus reported that "scary" fake emails were being sent from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security's infrastructure. These emails, such as the one pictured below, generally contained worrisome cybersecurity mumbo-jumbo in a plaintext format that looks more like a text document than an email from a government agency.

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