Article 1PRS4 Researchers learn about wire-fraud scam after Nigerian scammers infect themselves with their own malware

Researchers learn about wire-fraud scam after Nigerian scammers infect themselves with their own malware

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Cory Doctorow
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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")

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