The USA Web site of Korean pop singer "Rain" has been hacked to host a money mule fraud site.
The hacked site uses the company name of Rain Solutions. Clever…
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Money mules are very often unsuspecting people getting tricked into helping out in money laundry schemes. They receive stolen money into their accounts, withdraw it in cash, and then transfer it to the bad guys by using some more anonymous service, such as Western Union. When authorities look into these cases the trail will always lead to the money mule, not the people behind the crime. We see these cases pretty frequently but it's not that often that a site gets hacked and used to host the mule site.
