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Man charged with $100m whaling attack on two US tech giants

Evaldas Rimasauskas, 48, from Vilnius, Lithuania, is charged with swindling more than $100,000,000. He allegedly posed as an Asian-based computer hardware manufacturer to trick employees into transferring money into accounts he controlled. The victim companies were a multinational tech behemoth and a social media company. The FBI calls these ‘whaling attacks’ or CEO email scams, which cost businesses $1.2bn in 10 months, according to the FBI. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/03/24/man-charged-with-100m-whaling-attack-on-two-us-tech-giants/

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