Security News > 2020 > November > FBI warns of recently registered domains spoofing its sites
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning the general public of the risks behind recently registered FBI-related domains that spoof some of the federal law enforcement agency's official websites.
"The FBI observed unattributed cyber actors registering numerous domains spoofing legitimate FBI websites, indicating the potential for future operational activity."
Spoofed domains used in this type of attack are commonly created using misspelled versions of legitimate domains or switched top-level domains - in this case,.com or.net instead of the.
The lookalike domains the FBI warns about can also be used to create spoofed emails that would allow attackers to persuade their victims to click and open malicious links and websites.
The FBI's PSA also comes with an appendix of some examples of identified spoofed FBI-related Internet domains with dozens of such domains detected recently and possibly being prepared for future attacks.