Nigerian 419 scammers diversifying into Trojan malware

http://news.techworld.com/security/3532610/nigerian-419-scammers-diversifying-into-trojan-malware-finds-palo-alto/?

24 July 2014

A Nigerian cybercrime gang versed in 419 social engineering scams has diversified into using off-the-shelf RAT tools to attacks Taiwanese and South Korean businesses, according to researchers working for Palo Alto Networks…….

The object appears to be to steal logins for anything and everything…..

Low-level criminals tiring of trying to make a living using well-rehearsed but increasingly ineffective 419 email scams have noticed the new opportunity.

This has only been detected as affecting companies in the Far East but inevitably it will spread to the West and, from my experience in seeing the ease with which UK companies can be phished/hacked, the effect will be devastating.