Spam-tracking service Spamhaus tweeted about the incident on November 13.<\/p>\n
\nWe have been made aware of “scary” emails sent in the last few hours that purport to come from the FBI\/DHS. While the emails are indeed being sent from infrastructure that is owned by the FBI\/DHS (the LEEP portal), our research shows that these emails *are* fake.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Spamhaus (@spamhaus) November 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The mails contained a warning that FBI monitoring had detected “exfiltration of several of your virtualized clusters in a sophisticated chain attack” perpetrated by a chap named Vinny Troia, the founder of infosec firms named Shadow Byte Cyber and Night Lion Security.<\/p>\n
There is no indication Troia had anything to do with the incident and The Register<\/i> makes no suggestion he was in any way involved. However, an entity using the name and Twitter handle “@pompompur_in” appears to have told<\/a> Krebs on Security<\/i> they were behind the incident.<\/p>\n