October 29, 2014 By: Graham Cluley
The Seattle Times is furious, after discovering that the FBI stole its identity.
Documents obtained by the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) show that, while attempting to identify who had made a series of high school bomb threats, the FBI created a fake Seattle Times webpage containing a bogus Associated Press news story, with the intention of infecting a suspect’s computer with malware.
What was previously known was that in late May 2007, a series of bomb threats began to arrive at Timberline High School in Washington state. Some of the messages, which appeared to be from a Myspace user called “Timberlinebombinfo”, taunted the authorities that they were “too stupid to trace the email.”
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FBI infected 15-year-old bomb threat twit with malware, by impersonating newspaper
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