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The FBI will soon begin to share compromised passwords with Have I Been Pwned's 'Password Pwned' service that were discovered during law enforcement investigations. The Have I Been Pwned data breach notification site includes a service called Pwned Passwords that allows users to search for known compromised passwords.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says state-sponsored attackers breached the webserver of a U.S. municipal government after hacking a Fortinet appliance. "As of at least May 2021, an APT actor group almost certainly exploited a Fortigate appliance to access a webserver hosting the domain for a U.S. municipal government," the FBI's Cyber Division said in a TLP:WHITE flash alert published today.
An FBI analyst with top-secret security clearance illegally squirreled away national-security documents related to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, cybersecurity and more in her home for years, the feds say. Kendra Kingsbury, who was working in the FBI's Kansas City Division until being put on leave in December 2017, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly routinely removing numerous documents from their safekeeping at the office, over and over during the period between June 2004 to Dec. 15, 2017.
The FBI says it has observed 16 Conti ransomware attacks that targeted healthcare and first responder networks in the United States over the past year. First detailed in July 2020, Conti has grown to become a major threat, with more than 400 organizations worldwide being hit by the ransomware to date.
The attacks have targeted US healthcare and first responder networks with ransom demands as high as $25 million, says the FBI. Healthcare and first responder networks should be on guard for a continuing series of ransomware attacks uncovered by the FBI. In an alert published last Thursday, the agency said that it found at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks against law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, 911 dispatch centers and municipalities within the past year. More specifically, Conti attacks typically steal network access through malicious email links and attachments or hijacked Remote Desktop Protocol credentials.
The federal indictment charged Kendra Kingsbury, 48, with two counts of having unauthorized possession of documents relating to the national defense, according to an unsealed indictment that was made public on Friday. Kingsbury worked as an intelligence analyst in the FBI's Kansas City Division for more than 12 years, until her suspension in 2017.
The adversary behind Conti ransomware targeted no fewer than 16 healthcare and first responder networks in the U.S. within the past year, totally victimizing over 400 organizations worldwide, 290 of which are situated in the country. "The FBI identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting U.S. healthcare and first responder networks, including law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, 9-1-1 dispatch centers, and municipalities within the last year," the agency said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says the Conti ransomware gang has attempted to breach the networks of over a dozen U.S. healthcare and first responder organizations. "The FBI identified at least 16 Conti ransomware attacks targeting U.S. healthcare and first responder networks, including law enforcement agencies, emergency medical services, 9-1-1 dispatch centers, and municipalities within the last year," the FBI Cyber Division said.
The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center has seen a massive 100% in cybercrime complaints over the past 14 months. When the IC3 first began logging complaints in 2000, it took seven years to reach 1 million complaints.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation says its Internet Crime Complaint Center received more than one million cybercrime complaints over the past 14 months. Established in 2000 as the Internet Fraud Complaint Center and renamed in 2002, IC3 has received a total of 6 million complaints to date.