Extortion & Breach Compilation archive; BEC as a service

Pierluigi Paganini: Experts warns of a new extortion campaign based on the Breach Compilation archive – “Crooks attempted to monetize the availability of a huge quantity of credentials available in the underground market …. [using] the credentials collected in the infamous database dubbed ‘Breach Compilation’.”

Graham Cluley for Tripwire: BEC-as-a-service offers hacked business accounts for as little as $150 – “Researchers at threat intelligence firm Digital Shadows report that companies don’t even need to be hacked to spill their address books and email archives. Careless backups of email archives on publicly-accessible rsync, FTP, SMB, S3 buckets, and NAS drives have exposed some 12.5 million archive files (.eml, .msg, .pst, .ost, .mbox) containing sensitive and financial information.”

David Harley