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Stock-aid-cyfin-initiative

The CyFin initiative from the FBI's National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance is

dedicated to identifying, mitigating, and neutralizing cyber threats targeting the financial services industry. As a predecessor to the initiative, the Stock-Aid initiative was started in February 2007 in an effort to provide a collaborative forum in combating online stock manipulation schemes. The "account compromise" aspect of this initiative stemmed from phishing and identity theft scenarios and via the use of key loggers loaded on victim computers through a variety of social engineering schemes.