Published on: 2025-06-06 08:37:33
The FBI is warning about a new scam where cybercriminals exploit NFT airdrops on the Hedera Hashgraph network to steal crypto from cryptocurrency wallets. Airdrops are a method of distributing cryptocurrency tokens for free to wallet addresses, usually as part of a marketing, community growth, or reward campaign, but they are also used as bait for scams. "The Hedera Hashgraph is the distributed ledger used by Hedera. The airdrop feature was originally created by the Hedera Hashgraph network fo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 09:28:13
Update: The FBI’s original directive mistakenly included two models, the E100 and E300. The agency has since revised the list to exclude them, and we’ve updated this post accordingly. If you were spooked by yesterday’s news that thousands of ASUS wireless routers have been compromised by a botnet, and are thinking about buying a new router, here are some models to not add to your cart per a recent FBI advisory. According to a recent report by the agency, hackers are exploiting at least 13 olde
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-14 12:28:13
If you were spooked by yesterday’s news that thousands of ASUS wireless routers have been compromised by a botnet, and are thinking about buying a new router, here are some models to not add to your cart per a recent FBI advisory. According to a recent report by the agency, hackers are exploiting at least 13 older routers, mostly sold by Linksys under the Cisco brand, to power botnets and hide malicious activity. These are “end-of-life” models, meaning they no longer receive software updates a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 12:42:38
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Funnull Technology, a Philippines-based company that supports hundreds of thousands of malicious websites behind cyber scams linked to over $200 million in losses for Americans. Funnull facilitated virtual currency investment scams (also known as romance baiting and pig butchering) by buying IP addresses in bulk from various cloud service providers. The company sold these IP addresses and hosting services to cybercriminals, enabling them to host malic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 23:30:00
Getty Images/CNET Falling for a scam once feels bad enough. But the reality is that if you've been a victim, there's a good chance you'll be targeted again -- perhaps by the same swindler. In fact, con artists are known to go after scam victims by posing as FBI agents or other agencies and claiming to be helping get your money back. Americans lost $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, according to the Federal Trade Commission, a 25% increase from the year prior. These scams included investment scams
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-30 02:46:12
If there’s one thing the Federal Bureau of Investigation does well, it’s mass surveillance. Several years ago, then attorney general William Barr established an internal office to curb the FBI’s abuse of one controversial surveillance law. But recently, the FBI’s long-time hater (and, ironically, current director) Kash Patel shut down the watchdog group with no explanation. On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that Patel suddenly closed the Office of Internal Auditing that Barr created in 20
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 22:40:29
President Donald Trump has weighed in on a now-deleted Instagram post by former FBI Director James Comey, which Trump supporters insist was a death threat. And while Trump didn’t outright call for Comey to be prosecuted, he heavily suggested that using the mafia-style speak he’s become known for over the years. “A child knows what that meant,” Trump said in a clip that aired on Fox News. “If you’re the FBI director and you don’t know what that meant, that meant assassination. And it says it lou
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 15:10:09
The FBI is warning of a new scam targeting Middle Eastern students who lawfully reside in the US. Fraudsters are impersonating government officials in an attempt to convince students that there is an issue with their immigration or visa status. To rectify the problem, and avoid prosecution or deportation, a targeted student is asked to pay paperwork processing fees. Scammers are known to take advantage of current events to craft believable cons. This particular scam comes amid efforts by the Tr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 08:15:39
The FBI warns that threat actors are deploying malware on end-of-life (EoL) routers to convert them into proxies sold on the 5Socks and Anyproxy networks. These devices, which were released many years back and no longer receive security updates from their vendors, are vulnerable to external attacks leveraging publicly available exploits to inject persistent malware. Once compromised, they are added to residential proxy botnets that route malicious traffic. In many cases, these proxies are used
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-03 08:27:00
In a nutshell: An FBI official has warned of a rise in state-sponsored cyberattacks targeting American critical infrastructure, with China emerging as the most persistent and active threat. This concern follows high-profile breaches linked to Beijing-backed groups, who have infiltrated sectors like telecommunications, energy, and water, often remaining undetected for long periods. In an interview with The Register, FBI Deputy Assistant Director Cynthia Kaiser explained how Chinese state-backed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-08 11:57:21
Kash Patel, a far-right extremist and conspiracy theorist who just so happens to be the director of the FBI, tweeted Friday about the arrest of a judge in Wisconsin who he alleges tried to obstruct U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). But it wasn’t long before Patel deleted the tweet. Two hours later, Patel retweeted the exact same thing, and it’s unclear why he would delete the original tweet. “Just NOW, the FBI arrested Judge Hannah Dugan out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on charges of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-09 00:25:26
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-09 15:34:59
The FBI has asked the public for information on Chinese Salt Typhoon hackers behind widespread breaches of telecommunications providers in the United States and worldwide. In October, the FBI and CISA confirmed that the Chinese state hackers had breached multiple telecom providers (including AT&T, Verizon, Lumen, Charter Communications, Consolidated Communications, and Windstream) and many other telecom companies in dozens of countries. As revealed at the time, while they had access to the U.S
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-12 16:21:46
The FBI says cybercriminals have stolen a record $16,6 billion in 2024, marking an increase in losses of over 33% compared to the previous year. According to the bureau's annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report, IC3 recorded 859,532 complaints last year (256,256 with actual loss), amounting to an average loss of $19,372. The most impacted group is older Americans, especially people over 60, who filed 147,127 complaints linked to approximately $4.8 billion in losses. "Last year saw
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-16 04:20:32
The FBI recently spent hundreds of thousands of dollars buying powerful hacking tools but now the agency claims that it can’t find the documentation associated with those procurements. There isn’t a whole lot of information available about what the tools are or what they do. Vice previously reported that the bureau’s Child Exploitation Operational Unit (CEOU) bought them for $250,000 from an anti-child predator non-profit. They are described as one of the agency’s network of investigative techn
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-20 00:19:47
The FBI warns that scammers impersonating FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) employees offer to "help" fraud victims recover money lost to other scammers. Over the last two years, between December 2023 and February 2025, the FBI said it has received over 100 reports of fraudsters using this tactic. "Complainants report initial contact from the scammers can vary. Some individuals received an email or a phone call, while others were approached via social media or forums," the law enforcem
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 10:19:26
If there's any doubt that the United States is rapidly descending into oligarchy, a new move by Donald Trump's FBI might clear the air. After recording at least 80 separate incidents of vandalism or arson against Tesla vehicles and dealerships, the FBI has announced the creation of a brand new task force to investigate property damage inflicted on the EV company owned by top Trump operative Elon Musk. It's not yet known how large the task force is or what actions it will be investigating, as n
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-29 11:55:12
The Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday launched a task force "to try to nail the criminals setting fire to Tesla vehicles and charging stations," and is looking into an anarchist blog that has been "calling for more" attacks, The New York Post reported. "The bureau has received reports of 48 instances so far this month related to Tesla vehicles, dealerships and charging stations and is investigating at least seven of them in conjunction with local law enforcement, The Post has learned,"
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-30 07:39:00
Facepalm: The FBI is once again warning about an SMS phishing campaign targeting drivers and car owners. The unknown cybercriminals are trying to steal users' data and money, though avoiding the scam seems easy enough: you just have to do nothing and completely ignore the incoming text message. In April 2024, the FBI warned US citizens about an ongoing smishing (or SMS phishing) campaign spreading unsolicited requests to pay for nonexistent road tolls. Now, the bureau's Seattle division is repe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-01 03:45:53
is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. A report in the New York Post on Monday revealed the existence of a new 10-person FBI task force focused on vandalism and other activity aimed toward Tesla in response to the actions of Elon Musk. Like Attorney General Pam Bondi’s re-announcement last week of old charges against people accused of targeting Tesla locations for vandalism an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-02 17:09:19
The FBI is warning that fake online document converters are being used to steal peoples’ information and, in worst-case scenarios, to deploy ransomware on victims' devices. The warning came last week from the FBI Denver field office, after receiving an increasing number of reports about these types of tools. "The FBI Denver Field Office is warning that agents are increasingly seeing a scam involving free online document converter tools, and we want to encourage victims to report instances of t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-02 19:30:00
The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says it’s investigating a series of alleged incidents across the country in which “Tesla charging stations and dealerships were damaged.” On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighted charges against three people accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at Tesla vehicles and, in at least one alleged incident, writing “profane messages against President Trump” near Tesla charging stations, among other crimes. “Let this be a warning: if you join this wave
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-05 02:50:57
Almost four years ago to the day, the FBI entered U.S. Private Vaults (USPV), a storage business in Beverly Hills, and raided the safe-deposit boxes there, pocketing tens of millions of dollars in cash, valuables, and personal items. Among those owners was Linda Martin, from whom agents took $40,200—her life savings—despite that she had not been charged with a crime. Those charges would never come. Although USPV itself was ultimately indicted in federal court, the government had no case against
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-27 21:12:05
In Brief The FBI is warning that scammers are impersonating the BianLian ransomware gang using fake ransom notes sent to U.S. corporate executives. The fake ransom notes, first reported by U.S. cybersecurity company GuidePoint Security, claim that hackers have gained access to an organization’s network to steal sensitive data, and threaten to publish the stolen data unless a ransom demand is paid. The scammers are demanding between $250,000 and $500,000, according to the FBI, which says the l
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