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June 2020

How to use Kibana effectively. Today: Detect possible frauds in your data

Kibana is quite powerful and versatile for visualizing data in Elasticsearch. The Elastic Stack can be used for a variety of use cases. One is the detection of frauds e.g. in Banking transaction like within Softbank Payment Service or bonus point accounts like within Miles and More. Other areas are insurance or tax return data.

The scammer who tried to launder over $500,000 through Business Email Compromise

A 64-year-old man has pleaded guilty in a Texan court to charges of money laundering after a series of attacks that defrauded companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Kenenty Hwan Kim (who sometimes went by the name Myung Kim) took advantage of a simple trick that has proven highly effective to fraudsters in recent years. The method of tricking businesses into handing over large amounts of money is known as Business Email Compromise (BEC), and comes in a variety of flavours.