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Cameroon national and Thai females arrested in hacking/fake email case - raids in three provinces


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Daily News reported that four people were arrested in raids against a group of hackers in three provinces - Prachinburi, Naratiwas and Khon Kaen.

 

Taken in to custody by the Thai tech police on warrants were three Thai females named as kesarin, 31, Pornphan, 31, Chanisa, 23 and a Cameroon national Diaga Y., aged 30.

 

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The arrests followed complaints from a company that email had been hacked concerning contact with customers over trade in wooden dolls.

 

This resulted in a Japanese company being defrauded our of 12 million baht. 

 

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Money was spirited away to banks in the USA, Spain as well as Thailand. 

 

The hackers managed to intercept email and pretend that they were the company sending the mail and extort money from the Japanese company. 

 

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Very disturbing trend of account infiltration offenses. One would think that a company dealing with millions of baht would have the common sense to at least use or integrate 2FA and anti-MITM technology in their communication systems.  It is an incredibly low-cost investment. Apps such as Authy and Microsoft Authenticator are free and secure. Yubikey is another tried and tested anti-hack system. They are isolated systems which makes them difficult to infiltrate or penetrate. 

 

12 million. Mind boggling amount of money.

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