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Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by systemvoltage »

stevebmark wrote: post #129
Raed667 wrote: post #33

We have been made aware of "scary" emails sent in the last few hours that purport to come from the FBI/DHS. While the emails are indeed being sent from infrastructure that is owned by the FBI/DHS (the LEEP portal), our research shows that these emails *are* fake. https://twitter.com/spamhaus/status/1459450061696417792

I continue to see Twitter as an invaluable real time news source. It often seems to have more direct information on breaking topics than other mediums. I often discover news on Twitter well before seeing it on other platforms.

Agree, but also keeps feeding me extreme bias and straight up nonsense. Let’s not forget its destructive aspects as well.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by [deleted] »

bink wrote: post #121
agency wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love to commit high profile cyber crime that could land me in prison, as a prank.

If this is (as it appears it might be) simply a reflection attack of some sort, I'm not sure what crime could've been committed. Or at least what computer crime could've been committed. Impersonating a federal official is about the only thing I can think of.

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Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by VRay »

bink wrote: post #121
agency wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love to commit high profile cyber crime that could land me in prison, as a prank.

If this is (as it appears it might be) simply a reflection attack of some sort, I'm not sure what crime could've been committed. Or at least what computer crime could've been committed. Impersonating a federal official is about the only thing I can think of.

I want to live in the techno-libertarian Utopia you think this is

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by trhway »

tentacleuno wrote: post #37
trhway wrote: post #19

"email from FBI", and the Nigerian FBI office at that ... Reminded - a professor of a Moscow University couple months ago received a call from Russian Central Bank advising him that his account in some bank is being actively targeted by scammers/hackers, and that he needs to temporarily transfer the money to the special holding account the Central Bank rep provided, so the professor did. Some time later the scammers…

What happened to the scammers?

So far nothing. The victim reported it to police only 3 weeks ago. https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.gazeta.ru/amp/social/news/202...

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by razakel »

twofornone wrote: post #128
astronautjones wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

calling that guy a journalist is hilariously disingenuous. the guy that has been caught doctoring and falsely editing literally everything that he has produced? He's catering to an audience of hateful people that can't even eat breakfast without it being in bad faith. He is weeks away from an expose telling you that actually the confederacy landed on the moon first. Being a contrarian fool that argues blindly without…

> the guy that has been caught doctoring and falsely editing literally everything that he has produced? I don't know what to tell you, that's a lie. Even if he had published misleading or false statements in the past, that does not imply that everything out of PV is false, as convenient as such a belief may be for supporters of the establishment. >He's catering to an audience of hateful people that can't even eat bre…

Never heard of the boy who cried wolf, then?

The serial liar is probably lying. If he had anything of substance then he should pass it to someone with credibility.

Or, more likely, this is Hunter Biden's laptop, which disappeared once there was literally no substance.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by ac2u »

Zarel wrote: post #125
ac2u wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps the human effort needed to see their goals through requires that they filter for only the targets that would fall for such a poorly constructed effort.

The big unanswered question there is: Why go through the effort of making the headers real, if you want to intentionally filter out the kind of people who would look at them?

We're talking in hypotheticals of course, but the effort to make headers real isn't just to fool people who would inspect, but also to fool corporate spam filters and email clients that would display big bold warnings over such an email.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by dang »

yonaguska wrote: post #46

Tangentially related, but the FBI needs to be disbanded. At least the DC offices, which are simply a political police force at this point. This is just another example of incompetence on their part.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by dang »

Doubtme wrote: post #49
yonaguska wrote: post #46

Tangentially related, but the FBI needs to be disbanded. At least the DC offices, which are simply a political police force at this point. This is just another example of incompetence on their part.

Im just going to let you figure out this one for yourself.

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. We're trying to avoid that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by _jal »

buzer wrote: post #91
dsukhin wrote: post #25

The email domain where the messages originate is from some sort of federated identity management system that was created in 2010 (here is a proposal deck [0] with technical details). Found this program simply by searching Google for the sending domain. Based on the guide for using this system [1] (see step 15) looks like this specific email address is the one that sends automated confirmation emails upon registration…

> The Reddit thread suggests the recipients’ emails are likely ARIN IP range contacts. It's likely multiple different sources. I just noticed I got it as well on my personal email (which has custom domain) and I don't own any IP ranges.

Yeah, I got it to two accounts I use with ARIN, as well as another that is confusing me.

That one is not very old, I know I have the entire outbound history for it, and have not used it for ARIN or anything similar.

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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Post by throwaway743 »

RNCTX wrote: post #113
fortran77 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would assume they're recommending Edge now. We switched from IE to Edge around that time; and our company is very security conscious because of our clients.

I would assume you're wrong. I don't think you appreciate how many government websites run ancient software sold to them by a politician's cousin, who thinks even having a developer on staff is a waste of money.

They also run ancient shit that was promoted internally. Not to mention how many sites/tools are outsourced to vendors who then outsource development to foreign development vendors.

To clarify, this is concerning from a security standpoint and is not out of xenophobic bigotry.

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