{"id":1450,"date":"2019-12-08T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2019-12-08T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T06:54:41","slug":"how-attackers-used-look-alike-domains-to-steal-1-million-from-a-chinese-vc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/how-attackers-used-look-alike-domains-to-steal-1-million-from-a-chinese-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"How Attackers Used Look-Alike Domains to Steal $1 Million From a Chinese VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple but brilliantly executed heist. Pretend to be the sender by sending from a similar looking domain. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOne of the domains was a look-alike of the Chinese investment company&#8217;s domain; the other was a spoof of the Israeli firm&#8217;s domain. In both instances, the threat actors simply added an &#8220;s&#8221; to the end of the original domain name.<\/p>\n<p>The next phase of the scam involved the attackers sending two emails with the same subject header as the original email thread about the planned seed funding.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Money meant to fund an Israeli startup wound up directly deposited to the scammers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/attacks-breaches\/how-attackers-used-look-alike-domains-to-steal-$1-million-from-a-chinese-vc-\/d\/d-id\/1336547\">How Attackers Used Look-Alike Domains to Steal $1 Million From a Chinese VC<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a simple but brilliantly executed heist. Pretend to be the sender by sending from a similar looking domain. One of the domains was a look-alike of the Chinese investment company&#8217;s domain; the other was a spoof of the Israeli firm&#8217;s domain. In both instances, the threat actors simply added an &#8220;s&#8221; to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}