
The Justice Department has shut down a Pakistani -based network that was selling hacking and other tools of cyber fraud online. The group, known as Samm Raza or Heart Sander, has been working at least 2020, which controlled 39 domains and their associated servers, and they only in the US only 3 in the United States. He was responsible for the loss of millions of dollars in losses.
Sam Raza -driven websites Promotion and facilitate sales of malicious actors around the world, fishing kits, scam pages, and email extractors. According to CyberScopy’s journalist Brian Curbs, The Hart Sander Home Page Openly promoted openly A series of tools designed to target users of specific Internet providers, including Yahoo, anatomy, and i -cloud. The group also provided training for closing users, which was linked to the teaching YouTube videos related to methods to use tools.
Sam Raza’s users mainly used these tools to perform business email compromise schemes, forcing companies to transfer funds to hacker -controlled accounts. The group advertised its tools as completely unidentified by anti -spam software.
Fishing is a big business
The FBI’s Houston Field Office and the Dutch National Police, jointly, breaks down on how the international hacking trade has become a big business. Sam Raza was a huge entity on his own, manufacturing his food -branded fishing services, managed by a front company called the We code solution. However, Sam Raza was merely a middleman, selling tools to international organized crime groups, national state threat actors and other cybercriminals.
The fashing attack is increasing as these tools become more accessible. 2024 Fishing Intelligence Report Slash Next says the number of phishing emails has increased threefold in H2 2024.
The businesses targeted by these attacks will have to focus closely to the Dark Web, where such illegal activities are planned and marketing.
A report of geole strategy and research, New Dave for Cyber ​​Flexibility in Cyberfire eraIt has been found that financial services have considered an effective obstacle to the investors in the Dark Web Intelligence.
“Although most FI and even shopkeepers are reluctant to invest in the dark web threat Intel, businesses that have jumped to make these investments have benefited cyber benefits.” Trace (kitten) GoldburgDirector of fraud and security in Javelin strategy and research.