Reply to post:

Hacker takes down CEO wire transfer scammers, sends their Win 10 creds to the cops

Mayhem

Another defence is making sure that the account being wired to is preregistered in the system, so that the FC can approve it, and the system pays. That requires a paper trail that goes past more eyeballs. This idea of wiring a random account a large sum of money is really strange, but I guess at CEO level procedures are for the little people

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon