Spear-phishing; User accounts compromised
Global Organizations // Government (Foreign) // Africa
Hackers infiltrated the email of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon and peacekeeping organization Continental African Trading Limited (CATAL), and intercepted all electronic communications between the two parties. Posing as CATAL, the crooks sent email to the Ghana Armed Forces instructing them to pay cash in the sum of $13,978 into a United Bank for Africa account as part payment for the supply of the goods.
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