“The companies are very careful not to send too many warnings,” he explained. CloseĬompanies like Google do warn users if someone tried to enter their account from an unusual IP address, but Kozlovski said such warnings are sent very rarely. The email address you have provided is already registered. The funds are seemingly initially transferred to the bank accounts of intermediaries who aren’t directly connected to the hackers. The amount of each fund transfer is calibrated to correspond to a typical sum transferred by that businessman, so it won’t raise any red flags or necessitate any additional authorization procedures. The reply from the accountants is diverted to a separate email account owned by the hackers, and all evidence of the correspondence is erased from the Gmail account. The hackers analyze the businessmen’s email correspondence with both their accountants and the banks, then use this information to send their own fund transfer requests to the banks in a way that replicates the usual authorization process - they email the accountants from the hacked Gmail account to ask them to fill out a transfer request, and that request is then sent on to the bank. The current spate has so far only targeted businessmen with accounts at overseas banks and who have authorized their accounting firms to make transfers from these accounts. A similar hacking scam targeted one of Israel’s leading businessmen a year or so ago, robbing him of millions of dollars. The hacking wave was revealed in a blog post on an information security forum by Tal Mozes, the head of Hacktics, an information-security consultancy that is part of the Ernst & Young Israel group.
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All involve a similar modus operandi: The hacker breaks into the businessman’s Gmail account, searches for correspondence with accountants regarding transfers from overseas bank accounts, and then uses authorization procedures gleaned from this correspondence to transfer funds from these accounts to bank accounts in Switzerland, Dubai, Russia or the Cayman Islands. In recent months, there has been a sharp rise in complaints by businessmen about online fraud.
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Israel's enemies are able to launch major cyber attack, defense expert says Dozens of Israeli businessmen and women have recently been the victims of online fraud, with tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from their bank accounts, Israeli information-security experts say.