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The US Department of Justice, Apple, and game maker Supercell, have been warned of a money laundering ring that uses fake Apple accounts and gaming profiles to make transactions with stolen credit/debit cards and then sells these game premiums on online sites for the group's profit.
This operation came to light in mid-June when security researchers from Kromtech Security came across a MongoDB database that had been left exposed online without authentication.
"As we examined the database we rapidly became aware that this was not your ordinary corporate database," said Kromtech researcher Bob Diachenko.
"This database appeared to belong to credit card thieves (commonly known as carders) and that it was relatively new, only a few months old," he added.
Source: Open MongoDB Database Exposes Mobile Games Money Laundering Operation
(Score: 2) by arslan on Friday July 20 2018, @01:25AM
Even the crooks need to think cyber security first nowadays! Infosec professionals now have another avenue for employment of their skills! Think cyber-hardening-as-a-service paid via bitcoins or cold hard cash drops!