Hackers stole a billion rubles from four banks with the help of a bot
The intelligence services uncovered a group of cybercriminals who had deceived Promsvyazbank , Trust , Uralsib and the credit institution Zenit .
16 people in Moscow organized a cybercrime group and engaged in online fraud. The group began to work with a million rubles, gradually increasing the amount. In just four months, the team robbed financial institutions for a billion rubles. The scam was a success thanks to the special program they created.
“A group of Internet fraudsters with knowledge in programming and technology developed a bot, which at a certain point in time after conducting transactions from one account to another, canceled operations,” said a law enforcement source. - However, by this time, money was already sent on the payment order via Internet banking, and the team came to the bank with a delay. Most of the money transfers were from dollar to ruble accounts, or from dollar to euro. ”
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The fraudsters operated according to the following scheme: they got bank cards for other names, went to the terminal, replenished the account, went to another terminal, took a small amount and took a receipt, after which they received a receipt from the ATM with authorization data of a legal card ATM withdrawal operation, used its details through the ITS Internet and formed a fake electronic order in the form of a reverse transaction of cancellation of the withdrawal operation. As a result of such actions, the balance of the bank card account was restored and replenished by the specified amount. Thus, a gang of hacker-programmers was able to cause damage to four banks in excess of one billion rubles.
The alarm was sounded by the security service of one of the financial institutions, after which they appealed to the “K” department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. After the investigation, the participants of the group were identified and detained. In addition to the “hackers”, the group had its own driver and cashier.
Yes, you could already see this picture or news about such fraud, namely:
one , two and three . As we see, such fraud has taken a major turn.
Based on anti-malware.ru
16 people in Moscow organized a cybercrime group and engaged in online fraud. The group began to work with a million rubles, gradually increasing the amount. In just four months, the team robbed financial institutions for a billion rubles. The scam was a success thanks to the special program they created.
“A group of Internet fraudsters with knowledge in programming and technology developed a bot, which at a certain point in time after conducting transactions from one account to another, canceled operations,” said a law enforcement source. - However, by this time, money was already sent on the payment order via Internet banking, and the team came to the bank with a delay. Most of the money transfers were from dollar to ruble accounts, or from dollar to euro. ”
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The fraudsters operated according to the following scheme: they got bank cards for other names, went to the terminal, replenished the account, went to another terminal, took a small amount and took a receipt, after which they received a receipt from the ATM with authorization data of a legal card ATM withdrawal operation, used its details through the ITS Internet and formed a fake electronic order in the form of a reverse transaction of cancellation of the withdrawal operation. As a result of such actions, the balance of the bank card account was restored and replenished by the specified amount. Thus, a gang of hacker-programmers was able to cause damage to four banks in excess of one billion rubles.
The alarm was sounded by the security service of one of the financial institutions, after which they appealed to the “K” department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. After the investigation, the participants of the group were identified and detained. In addition to the “hackers”, the group had its own driver and cashier.
Yes, you could already see this picture or news about such fraud, namely:
one , two and three . As we see, such fraud has taken a major turn.
Based on anti-malware.ru
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/314150/
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