Sberbank and the "K" department caught the scammers who stole five million rubles from bank cards using attacks on Android smartphones
On August 17, the press service of Sberbank reported on the suppression of the activities of an organized criminal group that organized virus attacks on Android devices of clients of Russian banks and stole money from their bank cards. The investigation and detention was conducted by the "K" department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tomsk region. According to preliminary calculations, a group of seven people from February 2015 stole about five million rubles.
The fraudsters used a program that requested a balance tied to a bank card number, hid notifications and transferred funds to fake accounts of intruders. When detained, the computers, twenty-five telephones, one hundred and fifty SIM cards and bank cards were seized from the scammers. Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case and establish the victims.
Hackers did not have time to kidnap a large amount of money, because they only began to develop a scheme for writing off, said Sergey Lupanin, deputy head of the Information Security Group’s Information Security Incidents investigation department. He added that the scheme of debiting funds from bank cards using Android smartphones is widespread - smartphones based on this system are more susceptible to hacker attacks than mobile devices on iOS.
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In 2014, over one and a half billion rubles were illegally deducted from Russian bank cards. The average amount written off amounted to five thousand seven hundred rubles. According to the Central Bank , the second quarter of 2014 was the most successful for fraudsters: during this period, as a result of seventy-six thousand operations, attackers stole more than four hundred million rubles. In most cases, the object of attack are payment cards, followed by credit cards in the “popularity” rating. Moscow and the Moscow region became the absolute leader in the number and volume of unauthorized operations.
Data from the review of the Central Bank on unauthorized transfers of funds
The fraudsters used a program that requested a balance tied to a bank card number, hid notifications and transferred funds to fake accounts of intruders. When detained, the computers, twenty-five telephones, one hundred and fifty SIM cards and bank cards were seized from the scammers. Law enforcement agencies opened a criminal case and establish the victims.
Hackers did not have time to kidnap a large amount of money, because they only began to develop a scheme for writing off, said Sergey Lupanin, deputy head of the Information Security Group’s Information Security Incidents investigation department. He added that the scheme of debiting funds from bank cards using Android smartphones is widespread - smartphones based on this system are more susceptible to hacker attacks than mobile devices on iOS.
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In 2014, over one and a half billion rubles were illegally deducted from Russian bank cards. The average amount written off amounted to five thousand seven hundred rubles. According to the Central Bank , the second quarter of 2014 was the most successful for fraudsters: during this period, as a result of seventy-six thousand operations, attackers stole more than four hundred million rubles. In most cases, the object of attack are payment cards, followed by credit cards in the “popularity” rating. Moscow and the Moscow region became the absolute leader in the number and volume of unauthorized operations.
Data from the review of the Central Bank on unauthorized transfers of funds
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/367993/
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