FBI email targeted, hackers warn of ‘sophisticated chain attack’: Spamhaus

Spamhaus Project, a non-profit organisation based in Andorra and Switzerland on Saturday (local time) confirmed that emails have been sent from a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) server early today.

Taking to Twitter, the agency said that it had been made aware of “scary” emails supposedly coming from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security. The emails warned of a “sophisticated chain attack” on the recipients’ cyberinfrastructure.

“We have been made aware of “scary” emails sent in the last few hours that purport to come from the FBI/DHS. While the emails are indeed being sent from infrastructure that is owned by the FBI/DHS (the LEEP portal), our research shows that these emails *are* fake,” it had tweeted earlier.