{"id":3213,"date":"2016-09-06T06:35:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2016-09-06T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T10:35:07","slug":"hacker-takes-down-ceo-wire-transfer-scammers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/2016\/09\/06\/hacker-takes-down-ceo-wire-transfer-scammers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacker takes down CEO wire transfer scammers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article is about an ethical hacker that is fighting fire with fire.\u00a0 Florian Lukavsky is working with police\u00a0using a technique called &#8220;whaling&#8221; to obtain criminal identities and credentials.\u00a0 These criminals targeted CEOs and financial controllers at\u00a0large and small corporations with requests to urgently wire funds for overdue invoices.\u00a0 This social engineering scam has resulted in an estimated $2.2 Billion of fraud losses in 14,000 reported cases.<\/p>\n<p>Florian flipped the script and began replying to the criminals with malicious PDF documents that were disguised as transaction confirmations.\u00a0 The malware helped to obtain twitter handles, user names, and identity information that is being used to apprehend the criminals.<\/p>\n<p>I thought this was a great example of an ethical hacker collaborating with authorities to expose these cyber criminals.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/09\/06\/hacker_hacks_ceo_wire_transfer_scammers_sends_win_10_creds_to_cops\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is about an ethical hacker that is fighting fire with fire.\u00a0 Florian Lukavsky is working with police\u00a0using a technique called &#8220;whaling&#8221; to obtain criminal identities and credentials.\u00a0 These criminals targeted CEOs and financial controllers at\u00a0large and small corporations with requests to urgently wire funds for overdue invoices.\u00a0 This social engineering scam has resulted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/itacs5211fall16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}