‘Industrial-scale fraud operations’: Global criminal organization ran slaving links in Asia behind massive malware-as-a-service hydra targeting more than 35 government agencies every month

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Malware operators – people who send phishing emails and guide people through the chain of infection – do not always do so of their own free will – sometimes they are trafficked into fraud centers and forced to work there.

One such global criminal organization was uncovered by security researchers Infoblox Threat Intel and Vietnamese non-profit Chong Lua Dao, who recently observed an increase in abnormal DNS traffic across Infoblox customer networks, leading them to a previously undocumented malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform.