Understanding the Brazilian hacking community [Q&A]

We tend to think of hacking communities as being concentrated in the Far East or the former Soviet bloc, but of course there hackers elsewhere that we don't hear so much about. Researchers at Recorded Future have been investigating hacking communities around the world, and their latest report covers Brazil. It finds that hackers in Brazil are keen to follow the money and have shown an impressive ability to bypass internet banking security controls and ATM security. What's more the country's high level hackers often succeed in overcoming two factor authentication. One of the reasons we hear relatively little about… [Continue Reading]