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Cyber-Crooks Steal $180,000 from Small Business via Advanced Persistent Threat

A small business got ripped off of $180,000 in a malware attack. The company’s network was first compromised in May 2012 when an employee opened up a malicious attachment in a spam message. Money mules are unsuspicious people usually employed via job classifieds and are told their job is to process payments between companies. Eventually, the money was transferred to the Ukraine. The attack was planned to the very last detail: the backdoor sent via mail, probably as a PDF attachment with built-in exploit code, and the money mules added to the payroll on the very same day.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/cyber-crooks-steal-180000-from-small-business-via-advanced-persistent-threat/

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