[real-eyes] Re: Cyber Gangs Hit Healthcare Providers
- From: "Steve" <kcpadfoot@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:27:35 -0500
Yes, and trying to help people so they don't fall for one of these job
offers and then become involved in something illegal.
Also that always important reminder to not open an attachment just because
its there.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "jose" <crunch1@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:05 AM
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Cyber Gangs Hit Healthcare Providers
> ah yah create a problem and then offer the salvation. How long do you all
> think before big Brother will get involved in these robberies.
>
> This will give them a grate opening to oversee all bank transfers, you
> know
> for our own good.
>
> I wonder if banks would be willing to set up a white list of venders that
> can do transfers from accounts.
>
> maybe the company receiving the transfer needs to have a password that the
> owner of the account sets up via fax or in person at a branch.
>
> The password would be valid for 1 transfer.
>
> the account owner needs to ok the transfers.
>
> maybe they ok the transfers via fax.
>
> I am pretty shore crooks will find a way around something like this but if
> we make them work for it maybe they will move on to easier targets.
> also the mules need to be jailed for not reporting this.
>
> maybe it will help get the word out that da this is a scam.
>
> so Steve is that the trend you were thinking of?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve" <kcpadfoot@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <First-Steps@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 8:55 PM
> Subject: [real-eyes] Cyber Gangs Hit Healthcare Providers
>
>
>> The following is from Security Fix
>> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/
>> Anyone seeing an ongoing scheme in all of this?
>> Steve
>>
>> Cyber Gangs Hit Healthcare Providers
>> Organized cyber thieves that have stolen millions from corporations and
>> schools over
>> the past few months recently defrauded several health care providers,
>> including a
>> number of non-profit organizations that cater to the disabled and the
>> uninsured.
>> The victims are the latest casualties of an
>> online crime wave
>> being perpetrated against U.S.-based organizations at the hands of cyber
>> thieves
>> thought to be based out of Eastern Europe.
>> On Sept. 9, crooks stole $30,000 from the
>> Evergreen Children's Association
>> (currently doing business as
>> Kids Co.
>> ), a non-profit organization in Seattle that provides on-site childcare
>> for public
>> schools.
>> Kids Co. chief executive and founder Susan Brown
>> said the attackers tried to send an additional $30,000 batch payment out
>> of the
>> company's account, but that her bank blocked the transfer at her request.
>> "Now we're in this battle with our bank, because my staff accountant
>> checks the account
>> every day, and we notified the bank before this money was stolen and the
>> transfer
>> still went out," Brown said.
>> Then last week, criminals targeted
>> Medlink Georgia Inc.
>> , a federally qualified, not-for-profit health center that serves the
>> uninsured and
>> under-insured. The thieves stole the user name and password to Medlink's
>> online banking
>> account, and used that access to send more than $44,000 to at least five
>> different
>> "money mules," people wittingly or unknowingly recruited via online job
>> scams to
>> help criminals launder stolen funds. The mules typically are told to wire
>> most of
>> the funds they receive to the criminals abroad (minus a small
>> commission).
>> Gary Franklin
>> , MedLink Georgia's chief financial officer, said the company's bank
>> reversed some
>> of the fraudulent transfers, but that it looks like transfers to two of
>> the mules
>> - worth $15,000 -- may never be recovered.
>> Also last week, unknown hackers stole nearly $200,000 from
>> Steuben ARC
>> , a Bath, N.Y., based not-for-profit that provides care for
>> developmentally disabled
>> adults. The fraudulent transfers were sent in two batches to at least 20
>> different
>> money mules around the nation. Steuben's bank blocked the second batch,
>> for a total
>> of $103,000, and a portion of the $93,000 worth of bogus transfers from
>> the second
>> batch.
>> Steuben's director of finance, Anita Maroscher
>> , said the company is still trying to recover some $42,000 in stolen
>> funds.
>> Bob Haley, Steuben's director of information technology, told
>> Security Fix
>> that the thieves were able to steal the company's online banking
>> credentials through
>> a keystroke logging piece of malware disguised as a shipping invoice that
>> was sent
>> via e-mail to one of Steuben's accountants.
>> "It went through this lady's computer, there was a file called
>> 'dhlinvoice.zip' that
>> she mentioned having opened while checking her Web mail at work," Haley
>> said. "She
>> said there wasn't anything she recognized in [that invoice], but there
>> was
>> a Trojan
>> horse in it."
>> The Trojan horse in question was none other than
>> Clampi
>> , by many accounts one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware in
>> distribution
>> today. Clampi is so complex and clever that some of the smartest security
>> researchers
>> out there are
>> still trying to decode all of its functionality and features
>> . Researchers at Symantec last week just posted what they say will be
>> the first in a series of writeups
>> discussing various aspects of Clampi.
>> By Brian Krebs | September 28, 2009; 3:15 PM ET |
>>
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