[Asteriskbrasil-biz] Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions

Hermann hermann at gmail.com
Thu Oct 23 10:49:23 BRST 2014


Deu no New York Times:
Phone Hackers Dial and Redial to Steal Billions
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/20/technology/dial-and-redial-phone-hackers-stealing-billions-.html

O velho golpe de sempre: usar o servidor da vítima para fazer
chamadas. E, para ganhar dinheiro, fazê-las para um número "premium",
que custará US$ 1/minuto. Os hackers chegam a enviar 220 chamadas
simultâneas. Durante um único final de semana, deram um prejuízo de
US$ 166 mil para um escritório de arquitetura.

SAN FRANCISCO — Bob Foreman’s architecture firm ran up a $166,000
phone bill in a single weekend last March. But neither Mr. Foreman nor
anyone else at his seven-person company was in the office at the time.

“I thought: ‘This is crazy. It must be a mistake,’ ” Mr. Foreman said.

It wasn’t. Hackers had broken into the phone network of the company,
Foreman Seeley Fountain Architecture, and routed $166,000 worth of
calls from the firm to premium-rate telephone numbers in Gambia,
Somalia and the Maldives. It would have taken 34 years for the firm to
run up those charges legitimately, based on its typical phone bill,
according to a complaint it filed with the Federal Communications
Commission.

[o resto da matéria pode ser lida no link acima]


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