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    FBI warns of Luna Moth extortion attacks targeting law firms

    The FBI warned that an extortion gang known as the Silent Ransom Group has been targeting U.S. law firms over the last two years in callback phishing and social engineering attacks. Also known as Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, this threat group has been active since 2022 and was also behind BazarCall campaigns that provided initial access to corporate…

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    The FBI says hackers are using AI voice clones to impersonate US government officials

    Had a call from a senior US official? It probably wasn’t real. The FBI has issued a warning about an ongoing malicious text and voice messaging campaign in which scammers use AI-generated voices to target victims. As part of the campaign, threats actors claim to be a senior US official in a bid to access personal accounts. The campaign began…

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    FBI takes down botnet exploiting aging routers

    The FBI and Dutch police have taken down two botnets and indicted four people believed to have been behind it. The botnet involved thousands of older wireless internet routers worldwide, installing malware that allowed them to be reconfigured and then making them available for sale as proxy servers on the Anyproxy.net and 5socks.net websites. Both website domains were managed by…

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    FBI seeks help to unmask Salt Typhoon hackers behind telecom breaches

    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…

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    The FBI Isn’t Calling to Help You Recover From Fraud

    Falling victim to a scam is terrible, but being targeted a second time by fraudsters posing as law enforcement promising to help you recover is even worse. Scammers pretending to be from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been reported more than 100 times between December 2023 and February 2025, according to an April 18 public service announcement.…

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    Scammers pose as FBI IC3 employees to ‘help’ recover lost funds

    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…

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    FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware

    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…

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    FBI ‘Increasingly Seeing’ Malware Distributed In Document Converters

    Image: iStockphoto/domoyega Threat actors may attempt to distribute malware, including ransomware, by offering free document converters, according to a March 7 report from the FBI’s Denver office. “Agents are increasingly seeing” this type of scam. The scheme has been deployed globally, the FBI warned. How the document conversion scam works Threat actors behind the document converter scam disguise malicious software…

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    FBI issues warning over free online file converters that infect your PC with malware

    Regardless of how tech savvy you may be, chances are you’ve likely turned to a free online file converter for help with quickly changing a file from one type to another. However, you may want to think twice before doing so, as the FBI is now warning that hackers are using these free tools to spread dangerous malware to vulnerable…

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    FBI confirms Lazarus hackers were behind $1.5B Bybit crypto heist

    FBI has confirmed that North Korean hackers stole $1.5 billion from cryptocurrency exchange Bybit on Friday in the largest crypto heist recorded until now. The state-sponsored hacking group (tracked as TraderTraitor, Lazarus Group, and APT38) intercepted a scheduled transfer of funds from one of Bybit’s cold wallets into a hot wallet, subsequently redirecting the cryptocurrency to a blockchain address under…

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