Hacker stole a million dollars by forging correspondence
Speech is about a deal between a Chinese venture capital fund and an Israeli startup. Which the hacker previously knew about.
He forged the email domains of both parties by adding a character to them. After that, he began to correspond.
For example, he edited and sent letters received from a startup to a venture fund, and vice versa – to a startup.
At some point, the deception was on the verge of collapse – the parties wanted to meet in Shanghai. But the fraudster came up with a reason to cancel it.
In one of the last letters, he indicated his details for paying $ 1 million. And the Chinese venture fund made it, consolidating the success of the hacker’s attack MITM(man in the middle).
To implement the deception, the attacker needed to send 18 letters to the fund and 14 to the startup.