#corporate affairs commission recruitment July 2017

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New Vacancies in a Foods and Beverages Manufacturing Company, July 2017

New Vacancies in a Foods and Beverages Manufacturing Company, July 2017

New Vacancies in a Foods and Beverages Manufacturing Company, July 2017 Sales Force Consulting – Our client, a Foods and Beverages Manufacturing company, with headquarters in Onitsha but with branches pan-Nigeria, is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:   Job Title: Female Customer Care Officer Location: Anambra Requirements They must be Graduates. They must…

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Verification / Recovery Officer at Progressive Advancement Centre for Entrepreneurship

Progressive Advancement Centre for Entrepreneurship (PACE) is a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in July 2017, and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). PACE is Africa’s leading training and microfinance institute, committed to changing lives and ensuring a better tomorrow for all. We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Verification / Recovery…

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Recovery & Verification Officer at Progressive Advancement Centre for Entrepreneurship (PACE) - Nationwide

Recovery & Verification Officer at Progressive Advancement Centre for Entrepreneurship (PACE) – Nationwide

Recovery & Verification Officer at Progressive Advancement Centre for Entrepreneurship (PACE) – Nationwide

Progressive Advancement Centre for Entrepreneurship (PACE) is a Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) founded in July 2017 and registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC).

We are recruiting to fill the position below: Job Title: Recovery & Verification Officer Location: Nationwide

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At a rally in late January in her native Oakland, Calif., U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris announced her intention to seek the presidential nomination by casting herself as a tireless advocate of men and women who lack power and wealth. The former attorney general of California — who since 2017 has been the state’s junior senator — described her first appearance in the courtroom, as a young San Francisco district attorney. “I knew I wanted to protect people,” Harris told the crowd of 20,000. “And I knew that the people in our society who are most often targeted by predators are also most often the voiceless and vulnerable.” But as the attorney general of the nation’s largest state — and therefore one of the most powerful law enforcement officials in the nation — Harris declined to investigate Herbalife, the nutritional supplement company that has been accused of fraudulent marketing practices. Documents exclusively obtained by Yahoo News show that in 2015, prosecutors in the San Diego office of the California attorney general sent Harris a lengthy memorandum that argued for an investigation into Herbalife and requested resources in order to undertake such an investigation. Similar investigations into Herbalife were already taking place elsewhere. About three weeks after the San Diego letter was sent, Harris received the first of three donations to her campaign for the U.S. Senate from Heather Podesta, the powerful Washington lobbyist whose ex-husband Tony’s firm, then called the Podesta Group, had worked for Herbalife since 2013. Heather Podesta’s own lobbying firm, Heather Podesta and Partners, would soon be hired by Herbalife, too. Harris did not pursue an investigation, even as the Federal Trade Commission proceeded with an investigation of its own, which had been opened the previous March and which suggested that sufficient grounds for such scrutiny did exist. In fact, the San Diego letter had meticulously laid out those grounds, pointing out that Herbalife presented itself to the public as a lawful enterprise, but that it could nevertheless be “engaged in less obvious conduct” that potentially harmed both Herbalife distributors and Herbalife customers. Allegations of such conduct, by 2015, had become commonplace in media reports. Harris never gave a reason for declining to investigate Herbalife, but the decision stands in contrast to her oft-expressed promise to fight for ordinary Americans for whom the 21st century economy seems to hold little promise. Those are the very same Americans, critics say, that Herbalife recruited — and exploited. Kamala Harris and her husband, Douglas Emhoff, in 2015. His position at a law firm that represented Herbalife raised the eyebrows of a financial journalist. (Photo: Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) More “It’s disgusting,” says Julie Contreras, a Chicago-based activist whose “Afuera con Herbalife” campaign sharply criticized the company for preying on Latino communities. Contreras says that her Spanish-language nickname for Harris is “Que Mala,” a play on “Kamala” that translates to “how bad.” “Kamala Harris did a huge injustice” in declining to investigate the Los Angeles-based company, says Contreras, who has publicly supported Beto O’Rourke’s campaign. Harris’s presidential campaign said it was not accurate to see in her treatment of Herbalife a hesitation about aggressively pursuing corporations. Harris “has a long record of going after bad corporate actors engaging in fraudulent behavior and delivering results for people who have been taken advantage of,” said campaign spokesman Ian Sams. He noted that as California’s attorney general, Harris “got $20 billion for California homeowners after taking on mortgage fraud by the big banks, secured a billion-dollar judgment against for-profit Corinthian Colleges for scamming students, and put Ponzi and pyramid schemers in prison.” Founded in 1980, Herbalife calls itself a “global nutrition company whose purpose is to make the world healthier and happier.” It is a multilevel marketing operation — MLM, for short — meaning that instead of selling its weight-loss shakes and pills through proprietary outlets, it relies on distributors who make a commission when they sell the products, which they can do out of their own homes or through “nutrition clubs” that cannot feature Herbalife branding, even though they sell Herbalife products. Such clubs have recently proliferated in Latino communities across the United States, where Herbalife’s hold is strongest. Herbalife protein bars at Herbalife's corporate office in Los Angeles. (Photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP) More Critics believe that MLMs, including Herbalife, are pyramid schemes because their profits stem from recruitment of new salespeople, rather than sales to end customers (the pyramid is the shape of such a company’s growing distributor base). Other than Herbalife, the most well-known American corporation to stand accused of running a pyramid scheme is Amway, the home products company founded 60 years ago in Michigan. In 1979, Amway won a crucial case in which the FTC called it a pyramid scheme, but the allegations persisted, both against Amway and other MLMs. In 2010, Amway paid out $56 million in the settlement of a class action suit that revived the pyramid scheme charges. Yet the company survived. (The current federal education secretary, Betsy DeVos, is married to the heir of the Amway fortune.) Herbalife attracted scrutiny almost from the start. In 1986, the state of California imposed a consent decree on Herbalife that said the company could not make “false or misleading representations” about how much money distributors could expect to make. The company also had to stop making allegedly false or exaggerated claims about its products. But that did little to stop the company’s growth, and it continued to rapidly expand both in the United States and around the world. In 2003, Herbalife hired Disney executive Michael O. Johnson, who brought management sophistication to its operations. A tanned triathlete, he seemed a living embodiment of the company’s promises. (The company’s founder, Mark Hughes, had died of a drug overdose three years before.) The company went public the following year; a 2005 annual report declared its market capitalization to be $359.8 million. But despite Johnson’s efforts to add corporate sheen, critics maintained that Herbalife’s profits came not from sales of its weight loss products, but in the aggressive recruitment of new members, each of whom was expected to buy large amounts of inventory from the company. The new recruits quickly realized, according to Herbalife’s detractors, that the inventory of pills and powders itself was largely worthless and that the only way to make money was to attract new recruits. Herbalife has long denied such accusations, portraying itself as a company that provides access to wealth to people who, for one reason or another, are unable to find success in traditional employment. The company declined to speak on the record for this story. Harris was first asked publicly to look into Herbalife’s alleged wrongdoing in 2013, when the company held its Extravaganza Latina in Los Angeles. Protesters picketed the event, urging Harris to investigate Herbalife. “We are asking Attorney General Harris to help us protect vulnerable, low income Latinos and other minorities from these schemes that have cost people their life savings,” one of the protest’s organizers said. At the time, Herbalife was fending off another existential challenge, from Manhattan hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, whose founder, Bill Ackman, had become convinced that though the company was worth $8.1 billion at the time, that valuation was predicated on illusion. He declared war on Herbalife with the public presentation of a 334-page PowerPoint dossier, the 64th page of which contained his central argument: “Herbalife is a Pyramid Scheme.” Brent Wilkes, then national executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, speaks against Herbalife in Los Angeles in 2013. (Photo: Fred Prouser/Reuters) More Ackman eventually came to take an astonishingly bold $1 billion short position on Herbalife, meaning that he borrowed stock in the company with the expectation that the price of the stock would fall dramatically. If that happened, Ackman’s short would provide him with a massive windfall, not to mention a validation of his beliefs about the company. Ackman and Pershing Square declined to comment for this article. Ackman’s public quest to take down Herbalife — he was explicit about that goal — brought newfound scrutiny to the company, pressuring regulators to act. The FTC opened an investigation into Herbalife in March 2014, with Lisa Madigan, attorney general of Illinois, and Eric Schneiderman, attorney general of New York, doing the same the following month. That meant that what were at the time the country’s fourth and fifth most populous states had now joined the fight. The FBI started an investigation in April 2014 as well. Harris remained silent. That January, activists met with members of her office. “The concerns were clearly articulated to her staff,” says Brent Wilkes, who at the time was executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the groups asking Harris to investigate Herbalife. “They heard us, asked interesting questions,” Wilkes recalls. He says he was “hopeful” that Harris “would come around,” but the activism failed to make a sufficient impact on her. Wilkes did not know that at the time, Herbalife was represented by Venable, which also employed Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff. Emhoff does not appear to have been involved in Herbalife’s affairs, but his work at the firm came to the attention of Christopher Irons, a financial journalist who first reported on the Emhoff-Herbalife connection. “Surely this would seem like some sort of enormous conflict of interest, no?” he wrote in 2015. The activists asking Harris to investigate Herbalife did not seem to know that she had a personal connection to the the law firm representing the corporation. “That’s news to me,” Wilkes said when told by Yahoo News about Emhoff’s law firm. The letter to Harris from Judith Fiorentini, the supervising deputy attorney general in the San Diego office, was sent on March 3, 2015. It was signed by two other deputy attorneys general, Sanna Singer and Jinsook Ohta, who like Fiorentini were in the consumer law department of the attorney general’s office. Their memo asked for a “ delegation of investigative authority,” which was to include “the authority to issue and enforce investigative subpoenas.” Fiorentini wrote that “while Herbalife has outwardly complied with the 1986 injunction ... we believe that it may be directing or enabling the acts of its distributors in ways that violate” that order “and/or consumer laws in general.” She explained that there was reason to believe that Herbalife was empowering its distributors to make false claims about the benefits of becoming a Herbalife distributor. “Herbalife can be liable for consumer violations by its distributors to the extent Herbalife enabled the distributors’ actions,” Fiorentini wrote. The letter went on to cite precedent for conducting such a probe, and noted that a preliminary investigation had already taken place. That investigation “revealed that Herbalife, at least in publicly available documents, has carefully drawn its corporate policies and conducted itself in a manner that is outwardly consistent with the 1986 Injunction.” Fiorentini thought it was nevertheless necessary to “delve behind what is publicly available to determine if Herbalife is directing or enabling its distributors” to act illegally. Fiorentini requested two full-time attorneys, three or four legal assistants and, potentially, officers to conduct undercover operations. The letter ended with the pros and cons of such an investigation. Fiorentini was frank about the energy and resources required while also anticipating a “rigorous legal defense” from the company. At the same time, she said that an investigation would “send the message that this office takes continued monitoring and enforcement of its existing judgments very seriously. In addition, it will ensure that Herbalife is held accountable for the acts of its distributors.” An area of the Herbalife corporate office in Los Angeles in 2016. (Photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP) More The contents of the memorandum, or its existence, have not been published before. But it suggests that Harris was made directly aware of the dangers Herbalife may have posed to the people of California. No investigation was opened into Herbalife in response to the memorandum from Fiorentini, who did not respond to repeated requests for comment from Yahoo News. Nor has Harris publicly said why she chose not to investigate Herbalife, a step that would necessarily lead to prosecution. A person familiar with deliberations at the attorney general’s office at the time disputes suggestions of inaction by Harris. The person — who requested anonymity in order to speak frankly — said that the California attorney general’s office did help the FTC with its investigation, namely through its corporate fraud division. And the person said that Harris was hesitant to join a fight between billionaires: In response to Ackman’s $1 billion Herbalife short, investor Carl Icahn bet heavily on the company, and the two men began to attack each other sharply on television. Podesta, the Washington lobbyist whose ex-husband represented Herbalife, donated $1,000 to Harris’s campaign for the U.S. Senate on March 31, 2015, at the end of the same month that had seen the arrival of the letter from the San Diego office, asking for an Herbalife investigation. She donated $4,400 to Harris’s senate campaign the following year. (Podesta had made smaller donations, of $100 and $500, to Harris in 2010 and 2014, respectively. She did not respond to requests for comment.) That July, Herbalife hired a top Podesta deputy, Eric Rosen, to serve as its top government relations official. The following year, Herbalife paid Heather Podesta $250,000 for her lobbying work. Harris moved on from her duties as a prosecutor in 2016 when, on the same day that Trump became president, she was elected to serve as California’s junior senator. She was sworn in the following January, and exactly two years later she announced she was running to oust Trump from the Oval Office. The FTC won a $200 million settlement from Herbalife in July 2016. Related to that settlement was one with Madigan, the Illinois attorney general, for $3 million. California, which often leads the nation in consumer and environmental regulations, remained on the sidelines. Vice President Joe Biden administers the Senate oath of office to Kamala Harris as her husband, Douglas Emhoff, holds the Bible in 2017. (Photo: Kevin Wolf/AP) More “I wouldn’t limit my disappointment to her,” says Wilkes, the former chief executive of the League of United Latin American Citizens, of Harris. “At least Kamala listened.” Still, he wonders why Madigan could wrest a settlement from Herbalife but Harris could not. “Kamala,” he says with audible disappointment, “should have had that too.” Since then, however, she has faced questions about whether her progressivism is genuine or only a matter of political expediency. She has yet to explain why she declined to pursue a corporation accused of exploiting her Latino constituents. Harris was replaced as California’s attorney general by Xavier Becerra, who had formerly represented Los Angeles in the U.S. House of Representatives. Becerra has formerly received significant political donations from Herbalife’s political action group. His office would not say how, if at all, this complicated considerations about opening an investigation into Herbalife. The attorney general’s press office declined to comment in response to repeated calls and emails from Yahoo News. Contreras, the Chicago activist, has watched the Harris presidential campaign with skepticism. For her, the decision to go easy on Herbalife is indicative of where Harris’s sympathies lie, and it is not with the downtrodden. Contreras has a simple message for the presidential candidate: “Kamala Harris, shame on you.”

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Original Post from Security Affairs Author: Pierluigi Paganini

Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns.

According to a new report published by the security firm Digital Shadows cybercriminal organizations are willing to pay millions to skilled hackers and malware developers.

The analysis of posts on Dark Web forums reveals that at least one threat actor is willing to pay more than $64,000 per month ($768,000 per year) to skilled hackers to recruit in criminal activities. Like big enterprises, the criminal organization is offering a professional and economic growth plan, in fact, the salary would go up to $90,000 per month ($1,080,000 per year) for the second year.

Cybercrime gangs aim at hiring skilled hackers that can help them in extortion campaign against high-worth individuals, in this case they promise $30,000 per month ($360,000 per year).

“For purer extortionists, the threat actor TDO used the KickAss forum to recruit individuals with network management, penetration testing, and programming skills. TDO posted job advertisements with specifications and salaries that would rival those offered by most corporate businesses. Recruits were tempted with £50,000 ($64,000) per month, with add-ons and a final salary after the second year of £70,000 ($90,000) per month.” reads the report published by Digital Shadows.

“Those with Chinese, Arabic or German skills could earn an added five percent on their salary or commission.“

Highly competitive salaries and other forms of remuneration are becoming an essential element of attractive in the cybercrime ecosystem.

Experts believe that so high salaries could motivate skilled professionals in abandoning bug bounty programs and join the cybercrime arena.

Extortion is a profitable business, according to Digital Shadows, using compromised credentials found on public websites, crooks earned over $330,000 through sextortion campaigns in 2018.

Skilled professionals could also opt to work alone, blackmail and extortion guides are offered for sale on several underground forums for less than $10. Black markets have a crucial role in the cybercrime ecosystem, they allow to match offer and demand for stolen credentials, botnets, sensitive documentation.

Sextortion campaigns allow crooks to use credential sets that are no longer valid, sextortion-based email campaigns seek to extort victims by threatening to publicly embarrass them for engaging in a sexually explicit act. Scammers, in fact, claim to have evidence and use previously exposed passwords as “proof” of compromise.

“These emails have been reported intermittently since late 2017, but the scale and persistence of the campaigns rocketed over 2018. Between July 2018 and February 2019, Digital Shadows has collected and analyzed a sample of sextortion emails in which 89,000 addresses received over 790,000 sextortion attempts.” continues the report

One of the most interesting case studies for extortion attempt reported in the report was the one that involved the hacking group The Dark Overlord.

In January, The Dark Overlord published the first batch of decryption keys for 650 confidential documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The group published a message on Pastebin announcing that it decided to offer for sale the documents even if the law firm paid to avoid publishing the documents. The Dark Overlord group decided to publish the document because the company contacted law enforcement.

If you want to read more about extortion activities conducted by cybercrime gangs give a look at the report.

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Go to Source Author: Pierluigi Paganini Crooks offer millions to skilled black hats to help them in extortion campaigns Original Post from Security Affairs Author: Pierluigi Paganini Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns.

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Latest Job Vacancy Loan Officer in Nigeria July 2017

Latest Job Vacancy Loan Officer in Nigeria July 2017

Job Vacancy Loan Officer at Verite Microfinance Bank Limited in Nigeria July 2017   Job Recruitment Loan Officer at Verite Microfinance Bank Limited   Job Description : Job Employment Loan Officer at Verite Microfinance Bank Limited Verite Microfinance Bank Ltd is duly registered in the Federal Republic of Nigeria by the Corporate Affairs Commission and licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria as…

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Bajan Newscap 4/11/2017

Good Morning #realdreamchasers! Here is your daily news cap for Tuesday 11th 2017. Remember you can read full articles via Barbados Today (BT), or by purchasing a Daily Nation Newspaper (DN).

BRAIN DRAIN – A shockingly high level of emigration by trained Barbadian university graduates is beginning to hit businesses in the country. As Barbados continues to pump hundreds of millions of dollars annually into its education system, much of that investment is leaking right back out as the country feels the effects of a debilitating brain drain. Statistics indicate that the developed world is getting Barbados’ best and brightest. In the latest Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) quarterly economic report, the Washington-based institution said the country’s private institutions were now facing a challenge sourcing top-notch talent, while there appeared to be a mismatch of educational talent to the specific job requirements of many businesses. (DN)

WE ARE STUCK & NOT GROWING - The people of Barbados and the rest of the region have a sense of entitlement and a high degree of arrogance that get in the way of economic growth, according to an expert on strategy and innovation. Compounding the problem, said Dr Miguel Carrillo, the executive director and professor of strategy at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business in Trinidad and Tobago, are high levels of uncertainty, low value proposition, low economic value activities and high debt levels. The academic sought to compare the region with China, saying the Chinese possessed “profound values” of “self criticism”, a suggestion that the region needed to catch up in this area. He added that unless the Caribbean “deeply and painfully” accepted its own vulnerabilities and flaws and “until we stop our sense of entitlement and start increasing significantly, our sense of accountability”, the region would not progress. Carrillo said he had little faith in the public sector to create value for a country, adding that Barbados and the region “lack of a clear economic strategy”. The strategy and innovation expert contended that “uncertainty is really taking over” the region, suggesting that this was because economic power rested with either the Governor of the Central Bank or the Minister of Finance. The Mexican national, who has headed the regional institution since 2009, warned that Barbados’ position as a tourist destination was “eroding” as it continued to experience severe competition from other destinations, and that the island had difficulty attracting and retaining even more visitors because of a lack of attractions. He charged that while Barbados and other Caribbean nations were experiencing increased cruise visitor arrivals, and were adding hotel rooms, this did not translate to greater economic returns.    Making it clear that he was not equipped to tell Barbados how to run its affairs, Carrillo said some important questions must be answered. “What is Barbados’ innovative, unique and national value proposition? What is it that we can offer to the world that is unique, different, singular, rare, difficult to imitate and difficult to substitute, and maybe even more importantly, generates tremendous value for our customers? What is it?” suggested Carrillo. (BT)

GLOOM - The foreign reserves picture appears to be getting gloomier, with noted Caribbean economist Marla Dukharan that in February 2017 the reserves had recorded “its fastest pace of decline” since November 2013. And the situation is not expected to get any better anytime soon, according to the RBD Group economist. In the April 2017 RBC Caribbean Economic Report, Dukharan quoted Central Bank data which showed that the reserves fell by 29 per cent in February when compared to the same period last year, to approximately $658 million – or about two months of import cover, “partly due to the domestic monetary base expanding 18 per cent year on year in February 2017 to $2.35 billion”. At the end of December 2016 the reserves stood at about 10.3 weeks of import cover or $681 million. It was the 21st consecutive month of declining reserves, the report said. In a supporting interview, Dukharan said this suggested that the underlying problem was “not temporary in nature”. Dukharan also cautioned that in light of chronically weaker US inflows, borrowing more United States currency now could make things worse in the medium to long term, adding that US inflows for projects were also largely temporary and would flow back out as materials and equipment were imported for the execution of those projects. She said it was difficult to imagine that Government would reduce reliance on the Central Bank and the NIS to finance its spending, given that the latest Budget made provision for a wider fiscal deficit for the 2017/2018 financial year. She said the most two recent downgrades of the island’s ratings “reflect the risk of holding Barbados Government debt, given unsustainably high fiscal deficits leading to weaker reserves and debt overhang”. And with general elections due within the next year, Dukharan said it meant things may not operate “normally” and therefore Government was less likely to exercise fiscal prudence and implement any major policy shifts that could jeopardize their chances of staying in power. (BT)

NOT RIGHT - Workers at the National Conservation Commission (NCC) are becoming increasingly agitated over reports that the statutory corporation had hired 170 new employees in recent weeks, three years after 200 workers were severed. Last July the Employment Rights Tribunal headed by Hal Gollop, QC, ruled that the 200 workers were unfairly dismissed when they were sent home in April 2014 as part of Government’s cost-cutting measures, and ordered compensation equivalent to 52 weeks’ wages. In addition, Government had agreed that the retrenched workers would be given first preference for any future vacancies within the state agency. However, multiple sources said not only were the retrenched workers ignored in this latest recruitment effort, but eyebrows were further raised upon discovering that many of the new employees hailed from the constituency of Minister of the Environment and Drainage Dr Denis Lowe. President of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) Akanni McDowall told Barbados TODAY the issue had been raised with the union, which was investigating the claim. He said if the allegation were confirmed it would certainly strengthen the union’s resolve to push for a salary increase for public workers. The NUPW has demanded a 23 per cent pay rise for Government workers, although McDowall recently said the union was prepared to compromise. In addition, the recently reelected union boss contended, that “when the workers were retrenched there was an agreement with the Government that those workers would first be considered if any job opportunities would later arise within the NCC. We don’t know if this is the case but we are still doing our investigations and if is not the case, we are certainly going to have an issue with that,” he cautioned. However, Lowe has strongly denied having any information about appointments at the NCC, telling Barbados TODAY he was neither familiar with, nor did he control the agency’s day-to-day operations, and was therefore unable to confirm or deny the claim. (BT)

QEH HIRES MORE STAFF TO DECREASE WORK LOAD – The country’s premier healthcare institution is hiring close to a dozen more professionals as it embarks on a 24-hour service in its critical diagnostic department. At the same time the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) anticipates saving more than half a million dollars in overtime annually as a result of the move. Chief Executive Officer of Dr Dexter James told Barbados TODAY Monday afternoon that when the eight staff already hired were added to the proposed ten, this would ease an overworked department and significantly slash or wipe out a financially burdensome overtime bill. He noted that areas such as the lab, the pharmacy, the X-ray department and even some support services required staff to work between 8.15 a.m. and 4.30 p.m., arrangements under which no 21st Century hospital could efficiently operate, he said. The chief executive insisted that some of the money now spent on overtime could be used to create additional posts, thus providing more extensive cover to the public on a 24-hour shift system. He explained that the hospital could not now change the terms and conditions of staff who have already transitioned from a statutory body to the current board, unless the workers’ representatives agreed to such change. Dr James said the hospital management met with the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) last Friday and it was agreed that the new arrangement would be reviewed next month. When contacted, Deputy General Secretary of the NUPW Wayne Walrond said the union wanted to have a proposal within the next month as to how the new system would work with the required resources. (BT)  

ALL AH WE IS ONE: PARTY PARAMOUNTCY – “Why would a governing party get so involved in the internal elections of the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW)?”  That was the exasperated question of Akanni McDowall, the recently re-elected president of the NUPW, who was shocked by what appeared to be an orchestrated campaign by ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP) operatives to block his team’s return to the helm of the union. On the Sunday prior to the union’s election, an entire DLP branch meeting was devoted to demonising the NUPW leadership. Similarly, a former president of the NUPW, and well known arch-rival to McDowall, Walter Maloney, was invited to deliver the DLP’s weekly Friday lunchtime lecture, during which he insisted that the NUPW should “work with the Government”. These developments reflect the central feature of the modus operandi of the DLP which my retired colleague Dr George Belle summarises as “party paramountcy”. For those too young to remember, the notion of party paramountcy is best associated with the People’s National Congress (PNC) of Guyana under the leadership of Forbes Burnham, in which all state and civic institutions – from the army, the credit unions, the university departments, the school boards to the Boy Scouts – were subordinate to the interests of, and existed as arms of, the ruling party. Under party paramountcy, the ruling party treats every national question as one in which the party’s interest should be placed above everything else. Thus, far from seeing a trade union election as a minor, low-level political activity outside the scope of party politics, those guided by party paramountcy would invest themselves heavily in its outcome, satisfied only with seeing “their people” occupying the key positions. No area is deemed as outside the scope of party control. This tendency towards “party paramountcy” is also seen in the unwillingness of the DLP to entertain any opinion which does not come from the “right person”. One sees therefore a party that listens only to itself, and views its legitimacy in the narrowest partisan terms. Branch activities become the only legitimate public forum. It is there that key policies are announced and where Government popularity is measured. Thus, in the midst of public debates about the economy and other critical issues, the DLP mounts a FACTS campaign amongst its faithful to provide political comfort to itself. Public policy is thus reduced to permanent electioneering. Once the minimum level of required support is assured, the rest of the country matters little, and democracy is stymied. The downside to party paramountcy, however, is that it invites civil society resistance. Every small defeat at civil society level becomes a huge political blow for the party, as witnessed in the re-election of the McDowall faction in last week’s NUPW election. Each small defeat weakens the morale of the party in the lead-up to the real election. (DN)

NEW RSS CHIEF OUTLINES PRIORITIES – The troubling issues of terrorism and cybercrime are high on the agenda of the new Executive Director of the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS) Captain Errington Shurland. The former Deputy Chief of Staff of the Barbados Defence Force, who took up his new position on February 1 this year after 33 years of military service, told Barbados TODAY that RSS member states were grappling with significant security challenges, which also include drug trafficking and transnational organized crime. The new boss stressed that terrorism and cybercrime had the potential to threaten the region’s bread and butter tourism industry, and the RSS had a responsibility to ensure the Caribbean remained safe and attractive to visitors.  “ Shurland said the RSS would also be seeking the support of its international partners to combat drug trafficking, as the region is a major transhipment point for illegal drugs. He added that member states were working to develop legislation to address the proceeds of crime.  (BT)

WIFI SCHEME – With Government proposing to ban all music on public service vehicles (PSVs), the Alliance of Owners of Public Transportation (AOPT) is preparing to roll out a scheme that will otherwise keep passengers occupied. AOPT Chairman Roy Raphael told Barbados TODAY discussions were under way with a telecommunications provider to install Internet on the vehicles, with a pilot due to be launched soon. With modern mobile phones already carrying music players from which people listen to music, it was not immediately clear how an Internet connection would help in this regard, although passengers could watch music video streaming sites such as YouTube. It also was not clear if this would be a free service, or if users would be asked to pay a fee. Minister of Transport and Works Michael Lashley last month announced that “all music on PSVs will be banned” in proposed amendments to the Road Traffic Act. Speaking during debate on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, Lashley had linked students’ conduct to the “subculture” which he claimed was being fostered through the music being played on PSVs. Raphael Monday reiterated his organization’s support for the proposed ban, agreeing with Lashley that most of the music helped to promote bad behaviour. This notwithstanding, Raphael questioned why the law already in place was not being enforced. Another driver, who also asked not to be identified, said he would not be happy with a total ban because he enjoyed listening to the radio while making his rounds. (BT)

MORE LINING UP FOR BDF – Scores of Barbadians are applying for recruitment into the Barbados Defence Force (BDF).  Newly-appointed Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel Glyne Grannum, says the BDF has been receiving an “overwhelmingly large demand” to join, from young men and women motivated by a desire to serve their country and communities. He told the DAILY NATION yesterday during a promotion ceremony for 19 members at St Ann’s Fort: “The young Barbadian men and women who come to enlist in the force, the message I get from them is they want to serve, they want to do something for Barbados and their community over and above themselves.” (DN)

VIRAL GYRATION - Videos of a group of students engaging in raunchy behaviour in a classroom have sparked fears of what could explode when cellphones are released in the schools come September. But the principal at the school where the incident occurred said there were already safeguards outlined in a report on the matter to head off any recurrence of what happened during that last day of the term. Several short cellphone recordings circulating on social media showed some junior students at Queen’s College gyrating on each other on the ground or standing in bent positions as other classmates cheered them on. Principal Dr David Browne said yesterday he was aware of the videos and action had been taken, including the summoning of parents of the offending students. (DN)

NOT GAY BASHING – Sex educator Ambrose Carter says he is not homophobic,but insists he has a right to air his disagreement with homosexuality.  Maintaining his position amid accusations that he disliked the gay community, Carter rejected this label. The Christian said his Pure Sex Centre was not trying to tell adults what to do in their bedrooms “unless we are asked”, but it was certainly not going to be silent when minors were being exposed to all types of sexual lifestyles. Carter, who is an HIV/AIDS counsellor, has come under heavy criticism for his claim earlier this month that the Health and Family Life Education programme being taught in secondary schools was turning Barbadian children into homosexuals. DN)

LOCKED OUT – The Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC) is again going after clients for outstanding rent. An official source told Barbados TODAY the Government agency locked out some clients at Pelican Village Craft Centre on Friday due to non-payment of rent. The under-patronized location, which is likely to go under private management soon, is home to just over two dozen retail shops and over a dozen workshops, a restaurant and bar and an annex with an art gallery. Barbados TODAY was unable to get an official word from the BIDC authorities or Minister of Industry, Commerce and Small Business Development Donville Inniss on the development. Over the past three years the BIDC had threatened several times to take action against those who continued to renege on their payment arrangements. One industry player who did not want to be identified told Barbados TODAY the situation was extremely sad, adding that all the storeowners wanted was traffic to the Pelican Village so they could get the required sale to adequately and persistently pay their rent. “Pelican does not get the traffic at all,” said the source, adding that the vendors tended to make better sales at hotels and other locations. In fact, the source said some agents of the retailers in Bridgetown were going as far as to encourage tourists coming off the cruise ships to “walk straight to Bridgetown and don’t stop until you get to town”. The BIDC has about 12 industrial estates across the island comprising 70 commercial buildings and more than 300 separate units in the corporations buildings. (DN)

SEXUAL HARRASSMENT LAWS COMING – Legislation forbidding sexual harassment in the workplace is to be introduced before the next general election due early next year, according to Minister of Labour Dr Esther Byer-Suckoo. Addressing a Democratic Labour Party (DLP) meeting at the George Lamming School Sunday evening, Byer-Suckoo said the problem was widespread, and affected the old and young, and both male and female workers. Therefore, she said, a Sexual Harassment Bill was its way to deter the practice. “It is a little bit controversial still, but this is a story I am working to make sure that we can tell before the bell rings [elections]. Byer-Suckoo emphasized that too many women, “men too, young boys, young girls” were being forced to choose between performing duties for the personal pleasure of their supervisors, or lose days off, or even promotions. She said it was a practice that had its genesis in slavery and lamented that it continued to this day. The new legislation, she promised, would “make sure that it cannot happen, that at least in our workplaces workers are protected”. Not for the first time, the minister also promised legislation protecting the rights of workers to enjoy their own social and religious pursuits without fear of discrimination. (BT)

COMISSIONG TO FILE NEW MOTION AGAINST HYATT – Political activist David Comissiong is seeking to strike another blow at the heart of the controversial Hyatt Centric Resort scheduled to be built on Lower Bay, The City. The attorney-at-law, who has already secured an injunction putting the brakes on the US$100 project, will Tuesday file an interim order suspending permission to build until the court can hear the substantive matter in a hearing scheduled for May. On March 22, Comissiong lodged the legal challenge in the Supreme Court to the construction, which, after several delays had won approval on February 15 from Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, who has responsibility for Town and Country Planning. That injunction, which resulted in immediate suspension of permission until the matter is heard by the court, came as a major blow for both the developers and Government, who have been eager to get the project going, amid domestic economic challenges. Speaking to reporters immediately after filing the claim, Comissiong was adamant that the Prime Minister had acted incorrectly on the matter. He had based his claim on 12 grounds, including the failure of Government to have public consultations or to carry out an environmental impact assessment (EIA) on the multi-million dollar beachfront development. The attorney had also argued that Stuart had relied on an outdated Physical Development Plan, even though Section 11(1) of the Town & Country Planning Act stipulates that the plan, which is now 14 years old, must be updated every five years. He also took issue with the 15-storey elevation, pointing out that the maximum height allowed for beachfront hotels was five storeys, compared to the seven storeys for non-beachfront tourist accommodation. Comissiong further noted that over the years applications for developments above the stipulated elevation were consistently turned down on the grounds that “such structures would negatively affect the visual amenity of the locale”. (BT)

TEEN: JAIL COULD DRIVE YOU MAD – A weekend behind bars was enough to make a 16-year-old appreciate his freedom and think twice about a life of crime.  “It was bad, sir, it mek yuh feel like yuh lost yuh freedom . . . . It would send yuh mad,” Kishmar Martin Alfred told Magistrate Douglas Frederick in the District “A” Magistrates’ Court yesterday. Looking over to his friend, Shakeem Donte Shorey, Alfred, of My Lord’s Hill, St Michael, warned him about the place that became his home for the weekend. “You won’t like it there; it would mek yuh guh mad; that’s why I would keep away from crime,” he continued. (DN)

JAIL FOR TWO DRUG ADDICTS – Two drug addicts, with no fixed place of abode, will call Her Majesty’s Prison at Dodds home for the next few months after pleading guilty to possession of cocaine paraphernalia. Jason Omar Evelyn admitted before Magistrate Douglas Frederick that he had  apparatus in his possession yesterday intended for the use of cocaine. According to the prosecutor Station Sergeant Neville Reid, lawmen were on patrol along Walrond Street, the City when they spotted Evelyn coming from behind a business in the area with a haversack in his possession. He was stopped and it was at that point that police observed a clear plastic bag with vegetable matter, suspected to be cannabis, hanging from his pants pocket. As a result, the officers requested a search and a small bottle with a hole was found with residue on the inside. Evelyn who is known to the law courts, admitted knowledge and ownership when asked to account. Magistrate Frederick then sentenced Evelyn to nine months in jail even as he urged the convicted man to use to opportunity to clean up his act. In the other case, Sidwin Antonio Inniss was sentenced to six months in prison for possession of apparatus for the use of cocaine. He was arrested and charged yesterday after police were summoned to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital following a report that a man was being a public nuisance.  (BT)

GUN CHARGES - Two men were remanded to HMP Dodds after appearing in court charged with separate gun offences. It is alleged that Donnell Carl Smart of Block 3B, Haynesville, St James had in his possession a firearm and six rounds of ammunition without a valid licence. The 36-year-old who was charged last Friday is also accused of having 45 rounds of ammunition without the necessary legal documents. He appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick in the No.1 District ‘A’ Criminal Court and was remanded until May 5. However, he will face the Holetown Court Tyesday on the 45 rounds of ammunition charge as the offence was allegedly committed in the District ‘E’ jurisdiction. Smart was not required to plead to the indictable charges. The other gun accused – Rasheem Omario Powlett, of 6th Avenue, New Orleans, St Michael is charged with possession of two firearms and 23 rounds of ammunition without a valid licence to do so. He was not required to plead to the indictable charges, which allegedly occurred on April 7. The 24-year-old is also jointly charged with Corrie Cleophus Parris, 44, of Shop Hill, St Thomas with stealing a tarpaulin worth $65 belonging to Carlisle Catwell. Both men admitted to the robbery, which occurred on April 7. Powlett also pleaded guilty before Magistrate Douglas to possession of four grammes of cannabis worth $20. He was remanded to prison until May 5 while Parris was granted bail in the sum of $3,000, which he secured with one surety will also return on that date. (BT)

CAR THEFT ACCUSED DENIED BAIL – A bail application by one of two men who have been on remand since the weekend, was not enough to gain them their freedom Monday. It is alleged that 32-year-old Dwayne O’Neil Thornhill of Birch Path, The Pine, St Michael and 31-year-old Ishmeal Desroy Lennox Gilkes of Pioneer Road, Bush Hall, St Michael stole a motorcar belonging to Kimberley Forde sometime between June 1, 2016 and January 5, 2017. The two were not required to plead to the indictable charge. Thornhill is also separately charged with using the fraudulent registration number E3841 on Pickwick Gap, St Michael. When the two who first appeared before Magistrate Douglas Frederick on Saturday returned to the dock Monday morning, police prosecutor Station Sergeant Neville Reid strongly argued against their release. Reid revealed that he had spoken with the lead investigator on the case who informed him that his team was probing a number of similar matters based on information received. He stated that it was the prosecution’s fear that the accused men would interfere with investigations into the matter if granted their freedom. “Sir, attempts are being made to recover property and I believe if the accused are granted bail, they will frustrate those efforts. Police have also made a breakthrough in this case and also other matters,” Reid stated. However, in his application for bail, Thornhill stated that while he understood that the case against him was a serious one, the mentioned vehicle was “abandoned”. “It just so happen that the car has an owner. Garbage got an owner, Sir,” said Thornhill who disclosed that he was a mechanic. His co-accused remained silent. However, the magistrate pointed out that the charge against the two men may have come at an unfortunate time as “a lot of cars are being stolen” in Barbados at present. “Police are investigating those now and they arrest men with a car that has a fictitious number plate,” the magistrate stated. Frederick then ruled in favour of the prosecutor and remanded the two to HMP Dodds for another 28 days. They are scheduled to reappear in the No. 1 District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court on May 5. (BT)

ELDERLY MAN INJURED IN CHRIST CHURCH ACCIDENT - Eighty-three year old Mark Millington of Newton, Christ Church is said to be in stable condition at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital after being involved in an accident along Welches Road, at its junction with Hythe Gardens, Christ Church. Police say around 9.20 a.m., Millington was involved in a collision with a minibus that was being driven by 66-year-old Albert Hollingsworth of Brittons Hill, St Michael. Millington’s car overturned and he had to be freed from the vehicle by personnel from the Barbados Fire Service. Millington sustained injuries to his right leg, hands and head. Hollingsworth and passengers on the minibus did not report any injuries. (DN)

BARBADOS OVERCOME GUATEMALA 2-0 – Darian King has led the Barbados Davis Cup team to an historic win and in so doing has moved to a career high 112th world ranking. For the first time in Davis Cup history, Barbados defeated Guatemala 3-2 and earned their place once more in the Americas Group ll final. After the opening day on Friday ended 1-1, a superb 6-3, 6-4 and 6-3 victory by King and Haydn Lewis in the doubles against Christopher Diaz and Wilfredo Gonzalez on Saturday set things up nicely to give the home side a 2-1 advantage in the tie. (BT)

WALES STRIKE BACK - Weymouth Wales responded to Barbados Defence Force Sports Programme’s (BDFSP) late triumph the previous night with an emphatic win of their own in the Digicel Premier League at the Wildey Astroturf on Sunday night.  The leaders overcame Belfield by a 3-1 scoreline, thanks to strikes from Hadan Holligan, Arantees Lawrence and Riverre Williams, while Henderson Richards notched a late consolation for Belfield. In another game, a beaver-trick from Dario “Ears” Harewood plus an Andre Leslie strike, propelled UWI Blackbirds to a 5-1 trouncing of bottom side Home Improvement Waterford Compton, who were well in the game following a Zinio Harris equaliser. (DN)

VENOM BREAKS DOWN MJ AGAIN - If there is an antidote for Mark “Venom” Griffith, Julian “Michael Jackson” White certainly hasn’t found it yet.  Griffith, the island’s top ranked player, maintained his dominance over the former number one by defeating him in a gruelling, riveting two-hour contest 21-15, 11-21, 21-16, 17-21, 21-17, to capture his fourth straight Massy United Insurance Clash of the Titans road tennis title before thousands of spectators on Sunday night at Dover, Christ Church. It was the second time Griffith had outlasted White in the final of the competition, after having also won a marathon five-setter in the 2015 finals at the Netball Stadium. And as happened on that occasion, his youthfulness which trumped the 48-year-old’s experience. (DN)

AMATEUR BOXERS SHOW OFF SKILLS – Bantamweight Jamali Breedy continues to impress at the amateur boxing level and on Saturday night at the Horace Phillips Memorial Tournament at the Kensington Oval Bond, he was simply a cut above the rest. So much so, that if one had diverted one’s gaze from the ring to exchange pleasantries with another fight fan, Breedy’s bout against Dominican Simon Joseph would have been missed. It took a mere 86 seconds of the type of relentless pressure that is his forte, not to mention a heavy left hand to Joseph’s solar plexus, to end the contest in the first round. That left hand had followed an equally potent blow to Joseph’s chin. Breedy, from the National Gym, would later receive the accolade of Best Boxer of the Tournament. (BT)

DOGS OWNERS RUSH TO REGISTER PETS - Dog owners have been rushing to get their pets registered following the fatal dog attack on January 28 that claimed the life of 74-year-old retiree Verona Gibson. Since that incident in Haggatt Hall, St Michael, more than 1 000 people have registered their animals with the Animal Control Centre. But even with this influx of people trying to get on the right aside of the law, it is felt that the number of those still in breach of the regulations far outnumber those who are doing what’s legally correct. Inspector with the Animal Control Centre, Peter Belgrave, said they believed more than two-thirds of the dogs in Barbados were unregistered, even though the official records showed more than 33 000 on register. (DN)

PASSENGER DRAGGED OFF OVERBOOKED UNITED FLIGHT – Not giving up a seat on an overbooked flight led to an upsetting scene on a United Airlines flight on Sunday night. Several passengers on United flight 3411 from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Louisville, Kentucky, captured video as a man was dragged off the plane by authorities after he apparently refused to leave. Audra Bridges posted a 31-second clip of the incident on Facebook, which showed three men in black shirts and black baseball caps yanking a middle-aged man out of a seat. The men dragged him down the aisle, while someone screaming could be heard in the background. “Everyone was shocked and appalled,” Bridges told the Courier-Journal. “There were several children on the flight as well that were very upset.” The incident occurred after United asked passengers to give up their seats voluntarily for compensation. Nobody took the airline up on the offer, airline spokesman Charlie Hobart said. United CEO Oscar Munoz responded to the incident on Twitter on Monday afternoon. “This is an upsetting event to all of us here at United. I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers,” Munoz said. “Our team is moving with a sense of urgency to work with the authorities and conduct our own detailed review of what happened. We are also reaching out to this passenger to talk directly to him and further address and resolve this situation,” United then used a system to determine which passengers would leave the flight. “The system in place enables us to take a look at how long a customer will need to stay at an airport, for example,” Hobart said. “We also keep unaccompanied minors, we try to keep families together, we take a lot of factors into consideration.” United employees explained the situation to the man several times, but he still refused, Hobart said. Authorities came in and forcibly removed him from the plane. Some people took to Twitter to criticize how United handled the situation, while others weren’t sure of what to do. Merriam-Webster responded in a different way. The dictionary said it saw a 1900 per cent spike in searches for the definition of the word volunteer after the United incident.  (BT) 

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Original Post from Security Affairs Author: Pierluigi Paganini

Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns.

According to a new report published by the security firm Digital Shadows cybercriminal organizations are willing to pay millions to skilled hackers and malware developers.

The analysis of posts on Dark Web forums reveals that at least one threat actor is willing to pay more than $64,000 per month ($768,000 per year) to skilled hackers to recruit in criminal activities. Like big enterprises, the criminal organization is offering a professional and economic growth plan, in fact, the salary would go up to $90,000 per month ($1,080,000 per year) for the second year.

Cybercrime gangs aim at hiring skilled hackers that can help them in extortion campaign against high-worth individuals, in this case they promise $30,000 per month ($360,000 per year).

“For purer extortionists, the threat actor TDO used the KickAss forum to recruit individuals with network management, penetration testing, and programming skills. TDO posted job advertisements with specifications and salaries that would rival those offered by most corporate businesses. Recruits were tempted with £50,000 ($64,000) per month, with add-ons and a final salary after the second year of £70,000 ($90,000) per month.” reads the report published by Digital Shadows.

“Those with Chinese, Arabic or German skills could earn an added five percent on their salary or commission.“

Highly competitive salaries and other forms of remuneration are becoming an essential element of attractive in the cybercrime ecosystem.

Experts believe that so high salaries could motivate skilled professionals in abandoning bug bounty programs and join the cybercrime arena.

Extortion is a profitable business, according to Digital Shadows, using compromised credentials found on public websites, crooks earned over $330,000 through sextortion campaigns in 2018.

Skilled professionals could also opt to work alone, blackmail and extortion guides are offered for sale on several underground forums for less than $10. Black markets have a crucial role in the cybercrime ecosystem, they allow to match offer and demand for stolen credentials, botnets, sensitive documentation.

Sextortion campaigns allow crooks to use credential sets that are no longer valid, sextortion-based email campaigns seek to extort victims by threatening to publicly embarrass them for engaging in a sexually explicit act. Scammers, in fact, claim to have evidence and use previously exposed passwords as “proof” of compromise.

“These emails have been reported intermittently since late 2017, but the scale and persistence of the campaigns rocketed over 2018. Between July 2018 and February 2019, Digital Shadows has collected and analyzed a sample of sextortion emails in which 89,000 addresses received over 790,000 sextortion attempts.” continues the report

One of the most interesting case studies for extortion attempt reported in the report was the one that involved the hacking group The Dark Overlord.

In January, The Dark Overlord published the first batch of decryption keys for 650 confidential documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The group published a message on Pastebin announcing that it decided to offer for sale the documents even if the law firm paid to avoid publishing the documents. The Dark Overlord group decided to publish the document because the company contacted law enforcement.

If you want to read more about extortion activities conducted by cybercrime gangs give a look at the report.

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Original Post from Security Affairs Author: Pierluigi Paganini

Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns.

According to a new report published by the security firm Digital Shadows cybercriminal organizations are willing to pay millions to skilled hackers and malware developers.

The analysis of posts on Dark Web forums reveals that at least one threat actor is willing to pay more than $64,000 per month ($768,000 per year) to skilled hackers to recruit in criminal activities. Like big enterprises, the criminal organization is offering a professional and economic growth plan, in fact, the salary would go up to $90,000 per month ($1,080,000 per year) for the second year.

Cybercrime gangs aim at hiring skilled hackers that can help them in extortion campaign against high-worth individuals, in this case they promise $30,000 per month ($360,000 per year).

“For purer extortionists, the threat actor TDO used the KickAss forum to recruit individuals with network management, penetration testing, and programming skills. TDO posted job advertisements with specifications and salaries that would rival those offered by most corporate businesses. Recruits were tempted with £50,000 ($64,000) per month, with add-ons and a final salary after the second year of £70,000 ($90,000) per month.” reads the report published by Digital Shadows.

“Those with Chinese, Arabic or German skills could earn an added five percent on their salary or commission.“

Highly competitive salaries and other forms of remuneration are becoming an essential element of attractive in the cybercrime ecosystem.

Experts believe that so high salaries could motivate skilled professionals in abandoning bug bounty programs and join the cybercrime arena.

Extortion is a profitable business, according to Digital Shadows, using compromised credentials found on public websites, crooks earned over $330,000 through sextortion campaigns in 2018.

Skilled professionals could also opt to work alone, blackmail and extortion guides are offered for sale on several underground forums for less than $10. Black markets have a crucial role in the cybercrime ecosystem, they allow to match offer and demand for stolen credentials, botnets, sensitive documentation.

Sextortion campaigns allow crooks to use credential sets that are no longer valid, sextortion-based email campaigns seek to extort victims by threatening to publicly embarrass them for engaging in a sexually explicit act. Scammers, in fact, claim to have evidence and use previously exposed passwords as “proof” of compromise.

“These emails have been reported intermittently since late 2017, but the scale and persistence of the campaigns rocketed over 2018. Between July 2018 and February 2019, Digital Shadows has collected and analyzed a sample of sextortion emails in which 89,000 addresses received over 790,000 sextortion attempts.” continues the report

One of the most interesting case studies for extortion attempt reported in the report was the one that involved the hacking group The Dark Overlord.

In January, The Dark Overlord published the first batch of decryption keys for 650 confidential documents related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The group published a message on Pastebin announcing that it decided to offer for sale the documents even if the law firm paid to avoid publishing the documents. The Dark Overlord group decided to publish the document because the company contacted law enforcement.

If you want to read more about extortion activities conducted by cybercrime gangs give a look at the report.

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Go to Source Author: Pierluigi Paganini Crooks offer millions to skilled black hats to help them in extortion campaigns Original Post from Security Affairs Author: Pierluigi Paganini Cybercriminals are offering over a million dollars per year to skilled professionals like vxers and penetration testers to help them in extortion campaigns.