The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website to Unmask a Cybercriminal

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  1. guest

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    The FBI Created a Fake FedEx Website to Unmask a Cybercriminal
    [...] as well as deployed booby-trapped Word documents to reveal fraudsters' IP addresses
    November 26, 2018
    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...-fake-fedex-website-to-unmask-a-cybercriminal
     
    guest, Nov 26, 2018
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  2. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    Hey, the FBI loves their NITs ;) But you know, even out-of-the-box Whonix defangs them.
     
    mirimir, Nov 27, 2018
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  3. Palancar

    Palancar Registered Member

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    Yep, these NIT's are not that tough if you are careful. Another blunder was to open a Microsoft Document and remove protected mode. Really. As a minimum the Microsoft Document should have been moved to an Air gapped machine if you couldn't resist the urge to look under the hood. You could have then moved it back with it re-closed. Such basic things. I am staring at an Air gap machine for just such an occasion.
     
    Palancar, Nov 27, 2018
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  4. mirimir

    mirimir Registered Member

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    Yeah. But even an "air-gap" LiveCD VM with no VDI storage or network interfaces is usually good enough.
     
    mirimir, Nov 27, 2018
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