'Industrial-scale scam operations': Global criminal organization operated slave compounds in Asia behind huge malware-as-a-service hydra targeting 35+ government agencies monthly

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• Infoblox & Chong Lua Dao uncover global MaaS platform
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Malware operators - people sending phishing emails and guiding people through the infection chain - don’t always do it on their own free will - sometimes they are trafficked into scam centers and forced to work there.

One such global criminal organization was uncovered by security researchers Infoblox Threat Intel, and Vietnamese non-profit Chong Lua Dao, who recently observed a spike in anomalous DNS traffic across Infoblox customer networks, which led them to a previously undocumented malware-as-a-service (MaaS) Platform.

Further investigation uncovered that the platform registers roughly 35 new domains each month, and is active in at least ...