Cyber criminals might trade secrets stealing to stock prices manipulation. That claim security experts at FireEye. A computer hacker group with this objective, since 2013 more than one hundred companies.
FireEye, the computer hacker group the name of FIN4. The grouping would be located since 2013 in more than a hundred goals have directed that allegedly purposefully were selected. It goes according to FireEye, especially to attacks on e-mail accounts of persons that may be confidential or important information. The security company suggests that the hackers just have a goal: the influence of stock prices. Most of the victims would be in the United States are active, but their identity is nothing published.
A majority of the affected companies, according to FireEye in the healthcare or in the pharmaceutical industry working. Information about certain trade secrets, such as the results of investigations, the stock price can significantly influence. However, it is unclear the extent to which FIN4 actually has had an impact on the price of the respective companies.
FireEye gives little further information about the computer hacker group. That would also not be available because the hackers are working through Tor. The criminals are, according to Reuters, probably originating from the United States, but also Western Europe is not excluded. That claim is made on the basis of the language that the hackers in their e-mails.
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