Most cyber crime investigations reveal the aftermath of an attack. Few reveal the attackers themselves. That’s what makes Check Point Research‘s latest investigation into StopAndProtect so unusual. While analyzing a newly identified cyber crime operation, researchers uncovered a series of operational security (OPSEC) mistakes that exposed the attackers’ own infrastructure including: victim logs, screenshots, source code, internal management tools, and evidence of a campaign impacting more than 5,000 infected computers worldwide. The investigation also uncovered files referencing close to 2,000 compromised WordPress domains, providing a rare look inside how a modern cyber criminal operation is built and managed. According to […]
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