Three Nigerian men arrested in INTERPOL Operation Killer Bee
Interpol arrested 3 Nigerian men in Lagos, as part of an international operation codenamed Killer Bee. The three men are suspected of using the Agent Tesla RAT to reroute financial transactions and steal confidential details from corporate organizations. The suspects, aged between 31 and 38, the police found them in possession of fake documents, including fraudulent invoices and forged official letters.
The list of victims includes oil and gas companies in South East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa.
Agent Tesla, first discovered in late 2014, is an extremely popular “malware-as-a-service” Remote Access Trojan (RAT) tool used by threat actors to steal information such as credentials, keystrokes, clipboard data and other information from its operators’ targets. Both cybercriminal groups and actors involved in espionage operations use this RAT due to Agent Tesla’s stability, flexibility and functionality that allows for the collection of sensitive data and exfiltration from the victim.
