For $40, you can buy stolen police and government email accounts
For $40, you can buy stolen police and government email accounts
For $40, you can buy stolen police and government email accounts - Help Net Security
Active police and government email accounts are being sold on the dark web for as little as $40, giving cybercriminals a direct line into systems and services that rely on institutional trust. According to new research from Abnormal AI, the accounts come from agencies in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, India, and Brazil, and are being traded on underground forums. Source: Abnormal AI Unlike spoofed or dormant addresses, these accounts are functional and still … More → The post For $40, you can buy stolen police and government email accounts appeared first on Help Net Security.
This shouldn't need to be said but use a VPN with these accounts.
Fucking Jesus Christ, if someone is buying government email addresses on the dark web and then using a VPN to protect themselves against getting busted, they deserve what they get. Either use Tor or relay it through some compromised machine somewhere, or both. Or something. I don't really know how it works but definitely don't use a consumer VPN.
I mean it might be fine in the modern day, since anything in US law enforcement that might be subpeonaing the VPN company might no longer be functioning. But I still wouldn't really take the chance.
Don't use Tor. If the FBI found ways to break it before, assume it could have other vulnerabilities to do it again.