FBI, Dutch police disrupt 'Manipulaters' phishing gang
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·January 31, 2025jamisonbryant
ActionHank
How does this even happen?
So there's someone back and forth in an email chain with someone from Big Ambulance Inc negotiating price and agree to proceed with sale and then what?
unyttigfjelltol
A hacker interjects malicious payment instructions by hijacking a trusted communication channel.
colechristensen
And then somebody sends you an invoice, they aren’t who you think they are, and you wire their bank account to pay the invoice. They remove the money from their account, hide its origins through various laundering methods, and move on.
Craighead
[dead]
Larrikin
Wonder how many of them will be fired by Monday.
l0renz
[dead]
Fnoord
Probably the last time the Dutch police cooperates with the US government. What a time to be alive...
hhh
Why would it be the last? They have a long and vibrant history of collaboration.
compootr
re: the new administration
riedel
There is claims that the current dutch administration kind of invented their new US counterpart: https://www.politico.eu/article/the-man-who-invented-trumpis...
bluGill
Trump has a high statistical odds of dieing before the end of his term because of old age. (I doubt anyone will assassinate him, but that is also possible for any leader of a country). There will be more changes in administration - there always are.
solumunus
The reasons are obvious, you’re clearly playing dumb.
Fnoord
> Why would it be the last? They have a long and vibrant history of collaboration.
I suppose the FBI ends up being a partisan agency, like all other US government agencies.
Regardless, if trust is eroded between countries [1] [2] [3], why would the police of these countries cooperate, and share intel?
[1] Threaten those in NATO paying < 5% of annual budget to defense won't be protected by US (the US pays less).
[2] Threatening a colony of a NATO partner (Greenland, of Denmark).
[3] Threaten all your [now former] friends with tariffs.
FVEY is dead. NATO is dead. And any cooperation between US and NL is also dead. However, CA and AU might increase their cooperation with EU.
A Fire Department that I volunteered with in Rockville, MD was scammed out of a three-quarter-mil. vendor payment for a state-of-the-art Rescue Squad/Ambulance because of a hijacked email chain. I wonder if it was this crew.