Posted on Jan 20, 2017

Billion-Dollar Hacker Gang Now Using Google Services to Control Its Banking Malware

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Most institutions use Google without a second thought - "Forcepoint Security Labs researchers said Tuesday that while investigating an active exploit sent in phishing messages as an RTF attachment, they discovered that the Carbanak group has been hiding in plain site by using Google services for command and control."

Billion-Dollar Hacker Gang Now Using Google Services to Control Its Banking Malware

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LTC John Shaw

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Yes, criminals can afford to hire good coders. Even with separate partitioned Gmail services, that many companies regard as secure, this can be a problem.
Companies must maintain security review teams to validate security just like you need to validate customer functionality.

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