CybersecurityFake DHS e-mail used to spread malware
DHS warns that some e-mails purporting to be from the department’s intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software
Hackers have a new guise to attack federal, state, and local government and law enforcement departments: fake malware-riddled e-mails from DHS, AP reports.
Homeland Security officials are warning that some e-mails purporting to be from the department’s intelligence division were fake and contained malicious software.The e-mails actually originated from Internet addresses in Latvia and Russia, according to a brief alert from the Homeland Security Department’s counterintelligence unit the department said …
According to the document obtained by the AP, the e-mails had text made to look like an intelligence product from DHS and contained links known to steal a victim’s banking password. In response, DHS sent an alert to the Defense Department and state and local officials. The agency has fielded numerous complaints about the e-mails since June, the AP reports.
