International Threat Actors are Targeting Children to Steal Money from Banks & Major Corporations

Cyber threat actors are scaling "Malicious Marketing as a Service" organizations with affiliates who hijack legitimate .gov, .edu and .org infrastructure in order to host scams that are crafted to show up on the first page of search results for specific phrases.

These threat actors are explicitly targeting children and gamers, likely due to some lack of sophistication in that audience or a general "lack of criminal reporting" that occurs when a child is tricked into downloading malware or committing …

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