https://techmonitor.ai/technology/cybersecurity/fbi-email-hack-dark-lord

More than 100,000 fake emails were sent from an internal FBI server this weekend after the US federal crime agency suffered a security breach. The hack, which was designed to expose shortcomings in the FBI’s defences, could have been a lot worse, and is the latest reminder of the ongoing lack of adequate cybersecurity at key US government agencies which has yet to be addressed.

It is thought a cybercrime gang called the Dark Overlord gained access to FBI systems on Friday through a vulnerability in a poorly configured internal messaging portal. Subsequently, more than 100,000 people were spammed with emails about a cybercrime investigation from the email address eims@ic.fbi.gov.