Wednesday, 30 April 2025

FBI Warns of Time-Traveling Hackers

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Well, how’s that for a headline?

Don’t shoot the messenger, it’s actually something posted by Fox News.

Take a look:

So is time travel officially here?

Ehh, not so much.

The scam here is a little different.

Fox News explains more here:

Cybercriminals always find new ways to scam you, whether it’s mimicking a government agency, creating a fake website or delivering malware disguised as a software update. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, they come up with a new trick.

This time, the FBI has issued an alert: Hackers are using a “time-traveling” technique to bypass your device’s security measures. No, we’re not talking about actual time travel (though wouldn’t that be something?). This is a sophisticated cyberattack where hackers manipulate a system’s internal clock to sneak past security defenses.

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FBI warns of time-traveling hackers A man working on his laptops (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson) What you need to know

The concept of “time-traveling hackers” refers not to literal time travel but to a sophisticated cyberattack technique where hackers manipulate a system’s internal clock to bypass security measures. This attack is reportedly tied to the Medusa ransomware gang.

In this type of attack, hackers exploit expired security certificates by altering the system date on a targeted device to a time when those certificates were still valid. For example, a security certificate that expired in, say, 2020 could be made usable again if the system’s clock is set back to 2019. This allows malicious software signed with these outdated certificates to be recognized as legitimate by the system, effectively “traveling back in time” from a security perspective.

This technique was notably used in the Medusa ransomware attacks, which targeted critical infrastructure and prompted an FBI cybersecurity advisory (AA25-071A) earlier in 2025. The campaign has affected over 300 critical infrastructure targets. The attackers combined this method with social engineering and exploited unpatched vulnerabilities, amplifying the threat.

The FBI has warned that such attacks pose a significant risk, as they can disable modern security protections like Windows Defender by tricking the system into accepting outdated drivers or software.

And also from Fox News, here are 5 ways to make sure you stay safe:

1) Use strong antivirus software: A strong antivirus isn’t just for catching old-school viruses anymore. It can detect phishing links, block malicious downloads and stop ransomware before it gets a foothold. Since the Medusa gang uses fake updates and social engineering to trick users, having strong antivirus software adds a critical layer of protection against threats you might not see coming. Get my picks of the best 2025 antivirus protection winners for your Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices.

2) Enable two-factor authentication (2FA): The FBI specifically recommends enabling 2FA across all services, especially for high-value targets like webmail accounts, VPNs and remote access tools. 2FA makes it significantly harder for attackers to break in, even if they’ve managed to steal your username and password through phishing or other tactics.

3) Use strong, unique passwords: Many ransomware groups, including Medusa, rely on reused or weak passwords to gain access. Using a strong password (think long, random and unique to each account) greatly reduces that risk. A password manager can help you generate and store complex passwords so you don’t have to remember them all yourself. Get more details about my best expert-reviewed password managers of 2025 here.

4) Monitor for suspicious system time changes: The core of this “time-traveling” attack is clock manipulation: Hackers roll back a device’s clock to a time when expired security certificates were still valid. This allows outdated and potentially malicious software to appear trustworthy. Be alert to unexpected system time changes, and if you’re managing an organization, use tools that flag and log these types of configuration shifts.

5) Keep systems updated and patch known vulnerabilities: The Medusa ransomware campaign has a track record of exploiting unpatched systems. That means old software, outdated drivers and ignored security updates can all become entry points. Regularly installing updates for your OS, applications and drivers is one of the most effective ways to stay protected. Don’t put off those system notifications; they exist for a reason.

Ok, now can I be honest with you?

The first thing I thought of when I saw that headline from Fox News was actually this:

TOP TRUMP OFFICIAL: “We have the technology to manipulate time and space”

TOP TRUMP OFFICIAL: "We have the technology to manipulate time and space"

Folks, I'm telling you....something big is coming.

Some very big announcements or disclosures or discoveries or inventions are soon going to be released.

They're telling you right to your face...are you paying attention?

It was just a few days ago that I brought you this report:

REVEALED: President Trump Has Teleportation Technology?

And now on the heels of that one, we have another top Trump official making more stunning claims, like:  "We have the technology to manipulate time and space".

Words mean things and I don't think all of these stunning claims are being released right now by accident.

They're prepping the public.

In fact, I believe we've had a bunch of this technology for a long time and it's purposely been suppressed.

So I don't think these are necessarily "new" inventions, but they will seem very new and novel when finally released to the American public.

If you want to know what I really think, I think most of this is reverse-engineered alien technology of some sort, but that's another whole rabbit trail we don't need to go down right now.

Right now I just want to show you this....

Meet Dir. Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and just listen to what he was to say.

This is not what Noah thinks, this is from Director Kratsios himself:

FULL TRANSCRIPT:

The X-15’s record still stands, and the Concorde was decommissioned more than two decades ago.

Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be.

Our trains crawl compared to those in other parts of the world.

Our cars do not fly.

Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong.

Stagnation was a choice.

We have weighed down our builders and innovators.

The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet—first hampering America's ability to become a net energy exporter, and then making it harder and harder to build.

We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights, and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along.

But we are capable of so much more.

Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space.

They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.

As Vice President Vance said in a recent speech, the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America’s workers—of extending human ability so that more people can do more and more meaningful work.

But unrestricted immigration and reliance on cheap labor, both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving the productivity with technology.

We can build in new ways that let us do more with less.

Or we can borrow from the future.

We have chosen to borrow from that future again and again.

Our choice as a civilization is technology or debt— and we have chosen debt.

Today, we choose a better way.

Our first assignment is to secure America’s preeminence in critical and emerging technologies.

This administration will ensure that our nation remains the leader in the industries of the future, with a strategy of both promotion and protection—protecting our greatest assets and promoting our greatest innovators.

To the degree it even tried to accomplish this, the Biden administration failed on its own terms— led by a spirit of fear rather than promise.

The old regime sought to protect its managerial power from the disruptions of technology, while promoting social divisions and redistribution in the name of equity.

They secured American technology poorly and failed to strengthen our leadership at all.

Backup here if needed:

If you're like me and you want more than that short clip, you can watch the full speech right here.

It's really good.

Enjoy:

FULL TRANSCRIPT OF DIR. KRATSIOS' REMARKS FROM WHITEHOUSE.GOV:

THE DIRECTOR:

Thank you for the kind introduction.

It is a pleasure to speak to you all this evening, here in the early light of the new Golden Age of America.

President Trump has given all of us who serve in his administration a monumental task—the renewal of our nation.

I know, and I think you know too, that such a renewal will require the reinvigoration of American science and industry.

Over the last few decades, America has become complacent, forgetting old dreams of building a wondrous future.

But we know the American pioneer spirit still seeks the exploration of endless frontiers.

Our technologies, and what we do with them, will be the tools with which we will make the destiny of our country manifest in this century.

Yet this American hope in the possibility of progress and the power of science and technology does not allow builders and innovators to retreat from politics.

Indeed, quite the opposite, which is what brings me here today.

A Golden Age is only possible if we choose it.

There is nothing predestined about technological progress and scientific discovery.

They require the efforts and energies of men and women, the collective choice for order and truth over disorder and opinion.

The last century was called the American Century, as—despite wars and domestic conflict—the United States stood at the forefront of science and technology, building the future.

With the strength of our industry and ingenuity, we created the largest middle class the world has ever seen.

As President Trump said to me in his letter laying out the science and technology agenda of this administration,

“The triumphs of the last century did not happen by chance.”

Ours was the Atomic Age.

Ours the victory in the Space Race.

And ours the invention of the Internet, collecting and connecting the multiplicity of human knowledge.

Today we fight to restore that inheritance.

As the failure of the Biden administration’s “small yard, high fence” approach makes clear, it is not enough to seek to protect America’s technological lead.

We also have a duty to promote American technological leadership.

A gap lies between our moment and the speed of transformation America experienced midcentury.

Progress has slowed.

Yes, large language models astonish us, rockets still turn our eyes upward, and satellites envelop the globe.

But as we look forward to America’s 250th birthday celebration next year, our progress today pales in comparison to the huge leaps of the 20th century.

Consider the country of fifty years ago.

As the nation approached its bicentennial, Americans looked forward to electricity too cheap to meter.

By the end of 1972, 30 nuclear plants were operational, 55 were under construction, and more than 80 were planned or ordered.

That same year, the Apollo 17 astronauts became the 11th and 12th men to walk on the moon.

Five years before, the X-15 rocket plane had set a speed record for a crewed aircraft of Mach 6.7.

America was flying higher, faster, and farther than ever before…

Today, however, energy prices still burden producers and consumers alike, and the grid remains precarious.

Over the past 30 years only three commercial nuclear reactors have been built and 10 have been closed.

Despite spending almost twice as much on healthcare as peer nations, we have the lowest life expectancy.

Apollo 17’s steps on the lunar surface have proved mankind’s last.

The X-15’s record still stands, and the Concorde was decommissioned more than two decades ago.

Our passenger planes are slower than they used to be.

Our trains crawl compared to those in other parts of the world.

Our cars do not fly.

Advances have not stopped, but something has gone wrong.

Stagnation was a choice.

We have weighed down our builders and innovators.

The well-intentioned regulatory regime of the 1970s became an ever-tightening ratchet, first hampering America’s ability to become a net-energy exporter and then making it harder and harder to build.

We seem to have lost focus and vision, to have lowered our sights and let systems and structures and bureaucracies muddle us along.

But we are capable of so much more.

Our technologies permit us to manipulate time and space.

They leave distance annihilated, cause things to grow, and improve productivity.

As Vice President Vance said in a recent speech, the tradition of American innovation has been one of increasing the capacities of America’s workers,

of extending human ability so that more people can do more, and, more meaningful work.

But unrestricted immigration, and reliance on cheap labor both domestically and offshore, has been a substitute for improving productivity with technology.

We can build in new ways that let us do more with less, or we can borrow from the future.

We have chosen to borrow from the future again and again.

Our choice as a civilization is technology or debt.

And we have chosen debt.

Today we choose a better way.

Our first assignment is to secure America’s preeminence in critical and emerging technologies.

This administration will ensure that our nation remains the leader in the industries of the future with a strategy of both promotion and protection—

protecting our greatest assets and promoting our greatest innovators.

To the degree it even tried to accomplish this, the Biden administration failed on its own terms,

led by a spirit of fear rather than promise.

The old regime sought to protect its managerial power from the disruptions of technology,

while promoting social division and redistribution in the name of equity.

They secured American technology poorly, and failed to strengthen our leadership at all.

Promoting America’s technological leadership requires three things of government.

First, we have to make the smart choices of creatively allocating our public research and development dollars.

Second, we have to make the right choices in constructing a common-sense, pro-innovation regulatory regime.

And third, we have to make the easy choice to adopt the incredible products and tools made by American builders and to enable their export abroad.

In a moment of strategic significance, we must be more creative in our use of public research and development money,

and shape a funding environment that makes clear what our national priorities are.

Whether in AI, quantum, biotech, or next-generation semiconductors, in partnership with the private sector and academia,

it is the duty of government to enable scientists to create new theories and empower engineers to put them into practice.

Prizes, advance market commitments, and other novel funding mechanisms, like fast and flexible grants,

can multiply the impact of government-funded research.

At a time defined by the desire to build in America again, we have to throw off the burden of bad regulations that weigh down our innovators,

and use federal resources to test, to deploy, and to mature emerging technologies.

We know, for example, the greatest obstacle to limitless energy in this country has been a regulatory regime opposed to innovation and development.

This, too, has been the chief barrier to pushing the envelope again in transportation,

whether supersonic aircraft or high-speed rail and flying cars.

The time has come to review the rules on the books and to ask whom they really protect and what they really cost.

For a future stamped with the American character,

the federal government must become an early adopter and avid promoter of American technology.

Our innovators make incredible breakthroughs, but consumers, government included, require products that meet their needs,

not just the wide-open country of frontier technology.

Our industrial might, unleashed at home, and our technical achievements from AI to aerospace,

successfully commercialized, can also be powerful instruments of diplomacy abroad and key components of our international alliances.

American progress in critical technologies will make us the global partner of choice and the standards setter to follow

if we enable and encourage American companies to distribute the American tech stack around the world.

This approach to promoting America’s technological leadership goes hand in hand with a threefold strategy for protecting that position from foreign rivals.

First, we must safeguard U.S. intellectual property and take seriously American research security.

Second, we must prevent rival nations from infiltrating our infrastructure and supply chains,

as well as from embedding themselves in the infrastructure of our allies.

And third, we must enforce export controls and other measures that keep American frontier technologies out of competitors’ hands.

We face many dangers as a nation,

but thanks to decades of feckless American leaders, China in particular has grown into both a geopolitical rival and technological competitor.

This threat requires us to protect our science and technology resources with heightened vigilance,

and defend the vital work American researchers do in public and corporate contexts alike from misuse, theft, and disruption.

To safeguard our intellectual capital, we must restrict foreign access to sensitive data and strengthen oversight of international collaborators.

Our infrastructure, supply chains, and those of our allies must be secured, too.

We cannot afford to remain dependent, as we are in too many essential industries, on Chinese inputs and products,

nor can we allow our closest partners to become points of insecurity by relying on Chinese-controlled critical infrastructure,

whether in telecom, the grid, or AI.

We must establish and secure trusted supply chains,

implement public-private partnerships to enhance supply-chain resilience,

and create investment incentives to reshore more critical manufacturing.

Finally, after thirty years of subsidizing Chinese growth, it is time for us to stop helping a rival catch up with us in this race.

Strict and simple export controls and know your customer rules,

with an unapologetic America-first attitude about enforcing them,

are central to stopping China from continuing to build itself up at our expense.

We want peace between our countries,

and that peace depends on keeping America’s bleeding-edge technology out of our competitor’s hands.

The Golden Age of American innovation is on our horizon, if we choose it.

In a changing technological environment, the task ahead of us is to adapt to new realities without destroying the American way of life or dis-inheriting the American worker.

We seek, in the most basic terms, to secure our economy, restore our middle class,

and uphold America as the planet’s best home for innovators.

For many years now the temptation for the kinds of people represented in this room—builders and discoverers—has been to withdraw from politics.

In the face of burdensome regulation and inefficient government and the circus of election cycles,

many of you have chosen retreat of various kinds.

But there is no substitute for victory.

You and your fellow Americans cannot afford to give up on the nation.

In a world so shaped by politics as well as technology,

we must take action in both of these domains.

We need all Americans to continue to rise to the occasion,

to make full use of their talents, and to build.

All of us must labor to preserve the inheritance of the American Century to share with posterity,

and to ensure that the technologies that give shape to our world help the American people secure the blessings of liberty we received from our forebearers.

I bear that responsibility in my role as the President’s Science and Technology Advisor.

You bear it, too, in exercising whatever powers and responsibilities you have,

whether in business, education, or the laboratory—as Americans.

It is the choices of individuals that will make the new American Golden Age possible:

the choice of individuals to master the sclerosis of the state,

and the choice of individuals to craft new technologies and give themselves to scientific discoveries that will bend time and space,

make more with less, and drive us further into the endless frontier.

And now if you want even more, check out this other report I brought you a few days ago.

Tell me these aren't related...?

REVEALED: President Trump Has Teleportation Technology?

Stick with me on this, I promise I'm going to deliver the goods!

Does the United States already possess teleportation technology?

You know, like "Beam me up, Scottie!"

I know that sounds crazy at first glance, but you might just change your mind once you see what I'm about to show you.

It all starts with this Tweet that caught my attention today, suggesting that President Trump has teleportation technology and so badly wants to let the cat out of the bag:

And if that's all I had, I'd expect you to click out now.

But that's not how we roll around here.

We don't write entire articles based on one unfounded and speculative Tweet.

And yet, here we are so there has to be more -- and there is!

Watch this video from President Trump talking about the technology we have: "It's far more powerful than people understand. Nobody has any idea what it is and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have."

TRANSCRIPT:

And we're very powerful. This country is very powerful.

It's far more powerful than people understand. We have weaponry that nobody has any idea what it is, and it is the most powerful weapons in the world that we have.

More powerful than anybody — even — not even close. So nobody's going to do that.

But I think that if that's what you're referring to, maybe it's—

Ok, ok I know what you're thinking....

Still, that doesn't prove we have teleportation technology?

And you're right.

And perhaps we don't but now take a look at this next clip.

In light of President Trump going out of his way to talk about the technology we have that is far more powerful than people understand, now I give you Space-Force, Steven Kwast, USAF General Ret.

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