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Online Shoppers at Risk of Losing Over $53 Million

FBI Issued a Warning About Holiday Scams that Are Promising Bargains and Hard-To-Find Gifts.

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FBI’s Email Servers Were Hacked

The Hackers Managed to Send Out ‘Urgent’ Warnings About Fake Cyberattacks.

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Undercover FBI Agent Reveals Espionage Plans of Nuclear Engineer

The Nuclear Engineer and His Wife Were Arrested.

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Conti Ransomware Attacks on the Rise, FBI, CISA, and NSA Warn

They Published a Joint Advisory with Mitigation Measures against Conti.

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A Second Farming Cooperative Got Shut Down by Ransomware This Week

The Minnesota Farming Supply Cooperative, Crystal Valley, Suffered a Ransomware Attack.

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Online Romance Scams Led to $113 Million Financial Loss in 2021, the FBI Reports

Hackers Made People Lose Money Through the Belief into an Illusional Relationship.

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We Could Start Seeing Hurricane Ida-related Investment Scams

Investors Are Warned to Be Very Careful Regarding Any Potential Investment Scams Related to Hurricane Ida.

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FBI Is Warning Investors of Fraudsters Posing as Brokers

The Scheme Tries to Lure the Targets Into Investment Scams by Using Spoofed Sites, Fake Social Media Profiles, Cold Calling, and Doctored Documents.

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FBI Finds Over 100 Active Ransomware Variants

The Agency Warns That Ransomware Can Paralyze Organizations, and the Cost to Rebuild an Encrypted Network Can Be Catastrophic for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and Municipalities.

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FBI Warns of Cryptocurrency Attacks

The Federal Bureau of Investigation Is Warning Cryptocurrency Owners, Exchanges, and Third-Party Payment Platforms That Threat Actors Are Actively Targeting Virtual Assets in Attacks.

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DoubleVPN Servers, Logs, and Account Info Seized by Law Enforcement Agencies

The Servers and Customer Logs for DoubleVPN, a Double-Encryption Service Used by Threat Actors Were Recently Seized.

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FBI: BEC Scammers Now Impersonate Construction Companies

Since They Don’t Use Malware or Malicious URLs That Can Be Detected with Standard Cyber Defenses, these BEC Attacks Are Difficult to Trace.

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Ransomware Attacks to Be Treated with Similar Priority as Terrorism, DOJ Announces

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Recent Wave of Ransomware Attacks Was Similar to What the U.S. Faced After 9/11.

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Health Agency from Sweden Closes SmiNet after Multiple Hacking Attempts

The Swedish Public Health Agency – Folkhälsomyndigheten Shut Down SmiNet, the Country’s Infectious Diseases Database.

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FBI to Share Compromised Passwords with Have I Been Pwned

By Using this Service a Visitor Is Able to Input a Password and See How Many Times that Specific Password Was Discovered in a Breach.

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FBI Reveals APT Hackers Breached U.S. Local Government by Exploiting Fortinet Bugs

The Agency Disclosed That Foreign Hackers Had Breached A Local US Municipal Government’s Network After Exploiting Vulnerabilities in An Unpatched Fortinet Server.

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FBI: Victims Lost $4.2 Billion to Cybercriminals in 2020

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Has Observed A Significant Increase in Cybercrime Complaints Over the Past Five Years.