The FBI has sabotaged a piece of advanced malware that elite Russian spies have used to steal secrets from computers worldwide for more than 20 years, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is recommending owners of small office and home office routers reboot the devices to temporarily disrupt the malware and aid the potential identification of infected devices linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers. The culprits are using VPNFilter malware that is able to perform…
The FBI’s refusal to reveal some of its secret investigative methods is backfiring in several cases.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering some serious cash for information leading to the arrest of the bureau’s most wanted cyber criminal. Evgeniy Mikhailovich Bogachev, 31, is accused of hacking 1 million computers in the U.S. and internationally. Newsweek reports that the FBI is offering $3 million for information on capturing Bogachev, who…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is in the business of hacking computers. Kind of. NBC reports that the FBI is installing malware and spyware on computers belonging to suspected terrorists or pedophiles, which allows agents to send a virus or other malware to spy on the suspects. The hacking is so sophisticated that the FBI…
By CNN In the wake of a multi-million-dollar online scam, more than 300,000 computer users worldwide could find themselves without Web access this summer. Luckily for them, it will only take a few clicks to clean things up. The FBI announced that it’s created a website where users can check whether they’re infected with malware…
By Allan Lengel AOL News More than than 60 people were indicted today on charges of stealing millions of dollars from U.S. bank accounts through mischievous computer attacks. In announcing the local and federal indictments, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of New York said that modern high-tech bank heists no longer require “a gun, a mask,…
