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Lessons From Top-to-Bottom Compromise of Brazilian Bank

Lessons From Top-to-Bottom Compromise of Brazilian Bank

Hackers pulled off a stunning compromise of a Brazilian bank’s operations, gaining control of each of the bank’s 36 domains, corporate email and DNS.

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