Security News > 2021 > November > FBI Email Hoaxer ID’ed by the Guy He Allegedly Loves to Torment

Vinny Troia, the cybersecurity researcher mentioned in a fake alert gushed out of the FBI's email system, says it's just one of a string of jabs from a childish but cybercriminally talented tormentor.

Vinny Troia, the cybersecurity researcher mentioned in a fake alert gushed out to thousands of people from the FBI's own email system on Friday night, has fingered the guy who allegedly pulled off the exploit.

"Hi its pompompurin. Check headers of this email it's actually coming from FBI server. I am contacting you today because we located a botnet being hosted on your forehead, please take immediate action thanks."

The fake FBI alerts tied Troia to The Dark Overlord - a cybercriminal group that Night Lion Security had published research on in January and which it continues to investigate.

"The purpose of the email was to apparently discredit Night Lion & Shadowbyte's founder, Vinny Troia, claiming that I am a member of that group," Troia said in his Tuesday writeup.

Keenan Skelly, CEO of ShadowByte, told Threatpost via email on Tuesday that the findings contained in the 2020 report, "Identifying Pompompurin: Attribution of the hacker behind the FBI email hoax," have been reported to the St. Louis FBI and the Calgary Police Department.

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