Hacked Florida water plant used shared passwords and Windows 7 PCs

Posted on 11/02/2021 by Engadget

The Oldsmar, Florida water plant hacked earlier this week used outdated Windows 7 PCs and shared passwords, the Associated Press has reported. A government advisory also revealed that the relatively unsophisticated attack used the remote-access progr...

Florida city attacked by a hacker trying to poison its drinking water

Posted on 08/02/2021 by Engadget

The FBI is investigating an attempt by an individual or group of hackers to poison a city’s water supply. As reported by Reuters and the Tampa Bay Times, public officials from Oldsmar, Florida, a community located about 25 minutes north of Tampa, sai...

Capitol rioter allegedly planned to sell laptop from Pelosi’s office to Russia

Posted on 18/01/2021 by Engadget

A woman who was allegedly part of the mob that stormed Capitol Hill earlier this month may have stolen a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and tried to sell it to Russian intelligence. The FBI is investigating the claim from a "former r...

US intelligence agencies say Russia was likely behind the SolarWinds hack

Posted on 06/01/2021 by Engadget

America’s intelligence community has issued a joint statement naming Russia as the most likely source of the SolarWinds hack. Representatives from the FBI, NSA and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), via the Office of the Directo...

FBI, Europol take down a VPN service aimed at criminals

Posted on 26/12/2020 by Engadget

Virtual private networks are often forces for good that keep your data secure, but how that service is offered appears to matter to law enforcement. TorrentFreak reports that the FBI and Europol worked together to shut down Safe-Inet (also known as I...

FBI, Homeland Security detail how Iranian hackers stole US voter data

Posted on 31/10/2020 by Engadget

US officials are shedding more light on how Iran-linked hackers stole voter info to send intimidating emails to Democrat voters. The FBI and Homeland Security’s CISA have issued an advisory (via Bleeping Computer) explaining the campaign, which ran f...

Feds blame Russia, Iran for election misinformation and threatening emails

Posted on 22/10/2020 by Engadget

At a press conference on Wednesday evening, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe told reporters that two foreign actors, Iran and Russia, have been identified as taking actions to interfere in the US elections. Ratcliffe claimed the two h...

FBI sent a team to ‘exploit’ Portland protesters’ phones

Posted on 10/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Federal agents tend to focus their phone cracking efforts on terrorists, but they appear to have shifted their attention to civil disobedience. NYR Daily has learned that the FBI sent its “Fly Team” counterterrorism unit to Portland in mid-July to co...

US arrests two members of console hacking group Team Xecuter

Posted on 02/10/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Two members of Team Xecuter, a group that develops and sells devices that allow people to play pirated copies of games on their consoles, are in FBI custody. On Friday, the Department of Justice said Max Louarn, a 48-year-old French national, and Gar...

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