Researchers have uncovered a Nigerian hacking ring which targets maritime shipping firms in order to try and steal millions of dollars on an annual basis.. On Wednesday, security experts from the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said that the previously unidentified "Gold Galleon" threat group specializes in business email compromise (BEC) and business email spoofing (BES) fraud to dupe their victims into parting with funds. The link for this article located at ZDNet is no longer available. . On Wednesday, security experts from the Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said that the previous. researchers, uncovered, nigerian, hacking, which, targets, maritime, shipping, firms, order. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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