Malware gang steals $1.4 Million and sets up bitcoin exchange to launder it
Last week, four men were arrested in the Netherlands for spreading a type of malware that allowed them to obtain Dutch bank account information. And they used a bitcoin exchange to launder some of $1.4 million that was stolen from approximately 150 bank accounts. The malware, known as TorRAT, targeted only Dutch speakers. TorRAT used the anonymizing network Tor to use its command and control (C&C) servers. The men also paid for a Turkish crypting service to circumvent antivirus software and utilized the hosted tormail.org in order to communicate. Once the malicious software was able to....
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