Ship attacked by Iran after possibly falling for safe passage crypto scam.
I swear I was just thinking this the other day when there was all that confusion and some ran for it and got caught.
Like how do you know you’re bringing the right people.
Fortunately, then just kind of turned them back.
Also, shocking how many sailors were apparently in those ports and working. I heard 20,000 as that number.
Social engineering works.
I don’t understand why y’all are surprised.
This is a targeted social engineering campaign. Did you not get training by your company’s security team on what well engineered, targeted social engineering attacks like this look like?
Always verify the authenticity of your comms. And certainly verify the address to which you’re sending (be it swift wire, IBAN, or a crypto public key) before sending a dime!
Our Head of Accounting got an e-mail to his private mail address with just a link to a Word document on some random OneDrive.
It contained an invoice over $4000 for “AI services”, payable via money transfer.He sent it to the accounting department and told them to pay it.
Luckily, one of the accountants actually had a brain, and she forwarded it to IT.God. I hope they got a very stern lecture from their superiors and mandatory retraining from their security team.
Also their laptop should be wiped and rebuilt from opening a word document from “some random OneDrive”
Everyone gets yearly mandatory training. And every time you open Outlook, you get a reminder to stay vigilant, with a fun cartoon from the graphics department that changes daily to keep peoples’ attention.
Last year someone in the upper half of the food chain fell for a phishing mail. We nuked his account and recreated it with “p.lastname” instead of the usual scheme “peter.lastname” .
He had to inform all his contacts about his new e-mail address, and his coworkers called him pee-dot behind his back for a while.
After that, people got a lot more careful, it was better than any training.But somehow, it’s usually upper management that’ll call the IT lead and demand to unblock a website RIGHT NOW because they need it, and when you check it out, it’s a phishing link.
Well yeah, those with power have the power to not listen to the skilled people below them
Time to fire upper management
Guarantee it also involves the gambling betting sites on random events
Fuck, this really read like a satire piece.
Honestly I did a double take when I saw the community name like oh it’s just an onion…. OH FUCK THATS NOT AN ONION!?
I do wonder if it’s plausible that Iran doing some of the scamming. I mean Crypto currency is netorotious in being hard to trace making it perfect for criminal activities
More likely the usa and israel
It seems more like an Israel-level of cruelty to me. Especially because it makes Iran the bad guy, by making them open fire first.
There should be a name for it. Let’s call it a false flag
scammers don’t give a fuck and you can find them in any country in the world
To protect the autocracy. I am pretty sure Iran had good inteligence allowing them to find those scammers andeven execute them
Under Iranian law, serious financial crimes that destabilize the economy are often prosecuted as “corruption on earth,” a capital offense that carries the death penalty
Yeah, this is the right interpretation. Don’t think too deeply about the political motivation behind these scams, there isn’t one. The motivation is that these tankers and container ships are really really big, and they have proportionally sized wallets, and the scammers don’t want to miss the opportunity. The motivation is money and the opportunity is the legitimately confusing environment.
As humans, we look for patterns in everything, we naturally look for greater meaning in events. And sometimes things are simple and have no greater meaning.
well, “scammers in iran” doing it, and “iran” doing it, is two very different statements.
they could be just as well from cambodia for all we know
North Korea and Russia are leaders in such campaigns, typically.
This is a consequence of sanctions. People gotta make income somehow.
No way
