FireEye!!!! The leader in stopping today's advanced cyber attacks, today released a comprehensive intelligence report.
The report - Hacking the street ? FIN4 likely playing the market - details the work of team of native English speaking operators with extensive knowledge of the nuances in the industries they targeted as well as financial practices.
Designated by FireEye as FIN4, the group has been observed collecting information from nearly 100 publicly traded companies or their advisory firms, all parties who handle insider information that give a clear trading advantage to the attacker.
FireEye has tracking FIN4 - which is a group that target emails account of individuals privy to the most confidential information of more than 100 companies.
The group appears to have a deep familiarity with business deals and corporate communications and their effects on financial markets.
Operating since at least mid - 2013, FIN4 distinctly focuses on compromising the accounts of individuals who possess non public information about merger and acquisition ( M & A ) deals and major market moving announcements, particularly in the health care and pharmaceutical industries.
FIN4 has targeted individuals such as,
The report - Hacking the street ? FIN4 likely playing the market - details the work of team of native English speaking operators with extensive knowledge of the nuances in the industries they targeted as well as financial practices.
Designated by FireEye as FIN4, the group has been observed collecting information from nearly 100 publicly traded companies or their advisory firms, all parties who handle insider information that give a clear trading advantage to the attacker.
FireEye has tracking FIN4 - which is a group that target emails account of individuals privy to the most confidential information of more than 100 companies.
The group appears to have a deep familiarity with business deals and corporate communications and their effects on financial markets.
Operating since at least mid - 2013, FIN4 distinctly focuses on compromising the accounts of individuals who possess non public information about merger and acquisition ( M & A ) deals and major market moving announcements, particularly in the health care and pharmaceutical industries.
FIN4 has targeted individuals such as,
- Top executives.
- Legal counsel.
- Outside consultants.
- Researchers
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FireEye researchers also found that while FIN4 has highly advanced techniques for breaking into an company or organization, they have security practices on the data they transmit.
Stolen logic credentials were shown to be transmitted to FIN4 servers in plain text while the operators themselves use TOR mask to mask their locations and identities.
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