Hackers, scammers, threat actors and cybercriminals are now resorting to impersonating the very department tasked with helping U.S. citizens who have been victims of their activities. The FBI has issued a warning of “possible malicious activity” that indicates cybercriminals have been creating portals that look like the legitimate IC3.gov website in order to phish consumers.
Although the government agency didn’t share any specific examples of the attacks or threats, Bleeping Computer found a few spoofed sites that could be potentially used by attackers to steal financial or personal information from visitors. The websites they found – icc3[.]gov and ic3a[.]gov are typical of spoofed or phishing websites and feature the characteristics mentioned in the FBI warning such as “alternate spellings of words or use an alternative top-level domain to impersonate a legitimate website.”
