Hacker takes down CEO wire transfer scammers, sends their Win 10 creds to the cops
Florian Lukavsky hacks criminals profiting from out-of-control multi-billion dollar CEO wire transfer scams... and they hate him for it.
The director of SEC Consult's Singapore office has made a name striking back at so-called "whaling" scammers by sending malicious Word documents that breach their Windows 10 boxes and pass on identity information to police.
Whaling is a well-oiled social engineering scam that sees criminals dupe financial controllers at large lucrative organisations. Whalers' main method is to send emails that appear to originate from chief executive officers, bearing instructions to wire cash into nominated bank accounts.
