And his boss monitored him with a RAT
A most entertaining piece of threat research from Check Point gives a unique insight into the "working" life of a Nigerian email spammer who made thousands of dollars from stolen credit cards alone in recent years.
The scammer in question, whose true identity was known to Check Point, was by day "a leader, a content creator, an entrepreneur and an innovator; an accomplished business administrator; a renaissance man who is adored by his colleagues," as the infosec biz put it.
Yet, behind that facade of respectability, "Dton" (a made-up name to, er, spare his blushes) was in fact an email spammer – a spammer working as part of a Nigerian cybercrime syndicate that generates its ill-gotten gains through buying and using stolen credit card details.
Check Point chronicled Dton's alternate lifestyle in great detail, se ..
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