Canadian woman stole $38K in BEC scam

Aside from enabling the monitoring of hacking operations, Recorded Future's threat intelligence platform has also been touted to facilitate the discovery of misconfigured and vulnerable systems, as well as at-risk third-party infrastructure.

Nearly $5 billion of the reported losses — which also stemmed from call center fraud, tech support scams, and government spoofing — were attributed to the U.S., with California, Texas, Florida, and New York having the highest damages across the country, a report from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center showed.

Details regarding the targets of the indictment were not provided but such a move comes as the Justice Department committed to bolster transparency about election-targeted foreign influence threats after being less open about Russian interference during the 2016 polls.