[CSIRTs] Fw: [DNB] [RESEARCH] Is West Africa Poised for an Underground Market?

[Omo Oaiya]

…and this is before we bump your connections up with AfricaConnect2.  Imagine what will happen when your communities have good bandwidth and no protection!


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> Od: Jennifer O'Connell <joconnell at cymru.com <mailto:joconnell at cymru.com>>
> Temat: [DNB] [RESEARCH] Is West Africa Poised for an Underground Market?
> Data: 10 marca 2017 10:31:27 CET
> Do: dragon_newsbytes at cymru.com <mailto:dragon_newsbytes at cymru.com>
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> Title: Is West Africa Poised for an Underground Market?
> Source: Trend Micro, TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog
> Date Published: 9 March 2017
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> Excerpt:
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> "Based on an INTERPOL survey featured in a joint Trend Micro-INTERPOL
> research paper, West African cybercriminals stole an average of US$2.7
> million from businesses and an average of US$422,000 from individuals
> from 2013 to 2015. Scams or various types of fraud, whether simple (like
> 419 or Nigerian prince scams) or complex (like business email compromise
> [BEC] scams), run rampant in the West African threat landscape. In fact,
> most of the online scams we see now may have to do with the increase in
> the region’s cybercriminal activity volume.
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> While conducting research on cybercrime in West Africa, we stumbled upon
> a scamming operation dubbed “Z*N.” In it, the cybercriminal uses
> keyloggers to gather the email credentials of employees in order to
> hijack ongoing financial transactions. As such, hijacked funds ended up
> in accounts that the cybercriminal control.
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> The cybercriminal mistakenly installed the keylogger onto his own
> computer. This “slip” allowed us to access his logs and find details
> about him (personal data) and his operation. It also gave us an insight
> into what goes on in a typical scamming operation:"
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> To read the complete article see:
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> <http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/west-africa-poised-underground-market/ <http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/west-africa-poised-underground-market/>>

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Omo Oaiya
CTO/Directeur Technique, WACREN
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