Researchers learn about wire-fraud scam after Nigerian scammers infect themselves with their own malware
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1PRS4)
In Wire Wire: A West African Cyber Threat, researchers from Secureworks reveal their findings from monitoring a Nigerian bank-fraud ring whose members had unwittingly infected themselves with their own malware, which captured their keystrokes and files and uploaded them to a file-server from which the researchers were able to monitor their activities and methodologies. (more")