The ‘Better than Cash Alliance’ project is a globally
funded financial venture to promote e-commerce in Western Africa. With this giant leap from rudimentary bank
practices to electronic banking, which is a push from cash to digital payments,
is fraught with many cultural challenges - to include the current influx of
financial focused cyber-attacks. This information
is being supplied for your situational awareness.
Publication
date: 1
October 2016
Handling
requirements: Traffic
light protocol (TLP) GREEN
Attribution/Threat
Actors: African based threat actors / unknown
at this time
Actor
Type: Adversary capabilities have been assessed as Tier II*
Potential Targets: Senegal
and West Africa
Past Reporting: Red Sky Alliance: DOC-4297, DOC-4322
*Practitioners with a greater depth of experience, with the ability to develop their own tools (from publically known vulnerabilities).
The full attribution report has been published in its entirety in the Red Sky Alliance portal. For more information please contact the lab directly at 844-4-WAPACK, 603-606-1246, or feedback@wapacklabs.com.
About Wapack Labs
About Wapack Labs
Wapack Labs, located in New Boston, NH is a Cyber Threat Analysis and Intelligence organization supporting the Red Sky Alliance, the FS-ISAC and individual organizations by offering expert level targeted intelligence analysis answering some of the hardest questions in Cyber. Wapack Labs’ engineers, researchers and analysts use deep analysis techniques and visualization to design and deliver transformational cyber-security analysis tools that fuse open source and proprietary information. The intelligence derived from these tools and techniques serve as the foundation of Wapack Labs’ information reporting to the cyber-security teams of its customers and industry partners located around the world.
