Earlier quoted context omitted.
Awesome. A guide written in 2019 from the FBI that suggests Internet Explorer.
What’s wrong with internet explorer? It’s still in active support.
You must be trolling
Email from FBI Looks Odd
141–150 of 172 posts
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#142We 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.
Last summer Twitter alerted me to wild fire evacuations for my area (in Western Washington) hours before traditional channels reached me.
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#143The 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…
Awesome. A guide written in 2019 from the FBI that suggests Internet Explorer.
Yep, as late as earlier this year there's a ton of stuff inside the DHS that still requires IE and flash.
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
The boy who cried wolf alludes to a heuristic, not carte blanche to disregard media outlets you don't like.
And I would argue that dozens of images of the son of a presidential candidate partying with prostitutes and a crack pipe is indeed substance - regardless, the coordinated refusal to report negative information regarding their preferred party should make you at least as concerned about selective reporting as you are about PV. It is blatant evidence of partisanship, propaganda, and the same sort of election influencing collusion that trump and russia were accused of. Conveniently off of a false report as has recently come out - is that enough for you to start disregarding MSM outlets now? Clearly there wasn't even an attempt to investigate the steele dossier on the part of the propagandists you so blindly trust. Crying wolf indeed.
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#145Lots of people commenting that the text of the email seems amateurish. Perhaps it’s exactly as it should be, but you don’t understand its purpose. Maybe they wanted this to be discussed on netsec forums everywhere, so that Google searches for “Vinny Troia” always lead back to discussion about this email, framing him as a cyber criminal and outranking legitimate posts about or by him - an online identity assassination…
If you look at Vinny Troia’s YouTube channel, he gave a media interview regarding members of “TheDarkOrder” being arrested for ransomware. One potential explanation is that this is retaliation for same.
It's gotta be retaliation. See these reports about TheDarkOverlord that Vinny Troia has released:
https://nightlion.com/blog/2021/infographic-thedarkoverlord-...
https://nightlion.com/blog/2021/infographic-thedarkoverlord-...
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#146Earlier 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.
This would get the book thrown at you in any court of law. Hacking FBI email servers is what happened. The IP and subdomain are FBI.
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#147I still don't quite understand hackers: doing such high-profile hacking and writing lame texts even wihout much fact checking (about agency divisions in this case). Being written in more professional way, this attack could be way more effective. Also, is it a thing among "hackers" to write with tons of mistakes? A part of culture maybe? Or to scare the bricks out of people? )
>Also, is it a thing among "hackers" to write with tons of mistakes?
Most phishing content isn't made by native English speakers. A lot of it has incorrect grammar/spelling or was just generated by Google Translate.
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#148From the Reddit thread: "got it too. i called the FBI helpdesk and they are getting flooded with calls..." I mean as a spammer (or whateveer) do you REALLY want to piss off the FBI like that?
If you're in a former USSR state there's nothing they can do to you.
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#149Earlier 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.
Like it or not, this seems like a pretty easy CFAA case. Sending email through a server you're not permitted to access sounds like it would constitute a CFAA violation.
Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd
#150[deleted]