[Outages-discussion] [outages] not quite an outage, more a hack, "Urgent: Threat actor in systems" emails from FBI infrastructure

[Sadiq Saif]

On Sat, 13 Nov 2021, at 18:37, Brett Dikeman wrote:
> Getting back to the original topic: it's a combination hack (on an FBI 
> system/mail server) and human-powered DDoS on the FBI's technical 
> support helpdesk, which has been swamped with people calling it.
>
> (It's also not an outage, and should not have been posted to the list.)
>

Brian Krebs has a breakdown of what the vulnerability was and how it was exploited:
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/11/hoax-email-blast-abused-poor-coding-in-fbi-website/

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