THELOGICALINDIAN - A contempo aperture of chump abstracts at a UAEbased coffer which resulted in a Bitcoin bribe represents a appalling drudge that has apparent chump abstracts Some say it could be the better in UAE history
Sharjah coffer suffered the drudge on November 18. The hacker again captivated the acute chump abstracts ransom, aperture the advice on amusing media back the antecedent breach.
The hacker went by the moniker Hacker Buba and claims he won’t stop until coffer agents pays him an bearding bulk of bitcoins. Twitter abeyant Hacker Buba’s account, but the afterward day he had a new annual and uploaded annual statements of 500 coffer barter in one cheep as revenge.
Hacker Buba started by sending admonishing texts and emails to coffer customers, advertence their accounts were beneath his “control” and that they charge pay him a bribe lest he absolution his coffer statements online. He did so hours later. The coffer accepted the breach.
“Yes, there was a abstracts aperture and we accept been contacted by Hacker Buba. He is allurement for money but I cannot acknowledge how much. This is blackmail. We accept appear the amount to UAE Central Bank. The Telecom Regulatory Authority’s (TRA) Computer Emergency Response Team (aeCERT) is investigating,” the bank’s arch banking and operating administrator told XPRESS.
“We won’t accord in to any extortion threat. In any case there has been no banking loss. All what this man has is some chump advice and he’s aggravating to use it as a acceding chip,” he declared further.
The hacker told an XPRESS announcer via Twitter that he is gluttonous $3 actor dollars in bitcoins. He added that he has admission to the absolute coffer database including back files from anniversary one one of its servers. Hacker Buba is added adult than the attackers of the Bitcoin websites.
“Hacker Buba’s Cheep area credibility to a canton in Hungary, his antecedent posts are in Indonesian accent while the SMS beatific to barter were from a cellphone with a UK number,” Hamed Diab, bounded administrator MENA, Intel Security, told XPRESS.
The Hacker additionally approved to allurement the editor of XPRESS: “I accord u 5 % from absolute I get. Have many banks from UAE, Qater, ksa and etc. Will assignment together,” he told the announcer in a absolute bulletin on twitter.
What do you anticipate about this best contempo hack? Let us apperceive in the comments below!
