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Hackers Riddle Fake DHS E-mails with Malware
By Matthew Harwood
Created 08/25/2009 - 10:08



    
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Hackers have a new guise to attack federal, state, and local government and law enforcement departments: fake malware-riddled e-mails from the Department of Homeland Security.


Hackers have a new guise to attack federal, state, and local government and law enforcement departments: fake malware-riddled e-mails from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), reports the Associated Press [1].


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.




DHS Emblem by Raymond Yee/Flickr [2]


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[1] http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKJUme1_rZalXh8VIIhRsX3HD7BwD9A9C0HO0

[2] http://www.flickr.com/photos/raymondyee/3407184964/