Hackers have profited from US pension funds
Tens of millions of dollars disappeared from the savings - including pension - accounts of Americans, reports RIA "Novosti" with reference to ABC. The Federal Securities and Exchange Commission under the government ( SEC ), leading the investigation of theft, found out that their hacker groups from Russia, Eastern Europe, India, Malaysia and Hong Kong were committed.
The data of the victims, which are necessary for access to the accounts, were often obtained by criminals from computers located in public access points - Internet cafes, business centers. The machines, apparently infected, transmitted the keystroke information recorded by the keyloggers, opening up space for further actions for the hackers. Criminals usually either transferred money from their accounts, selling stocks and securities, or used the latter for more sophisticated frauds (for example, they began an artificial “promotion” of controlled low-value stocks with a view to their subsequent dumping with profit).
The above manipulations were carried out with both pension (“401k” accounts) and online investment and brokerage accounts, which Americans use to increase personal savings. The victims of the criminals were clients of well-known banks and brokers: Merill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Vanguard, Ameritrade, Fidelity, T-Trade and Scott Trade.
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ABC, having decided to conduct its own investigation, asked its Russian-language trainee to “infiltrate” into the Moscow hacker community. At one of the Internet forums, “Cossacks” offered for $ 350 to buy the data of six accounts with a total amount of $ 100 thousand. One of the hackers even attached a “free sample” to his product - US citizen account data in the Ameritrade e-investment system. In a telephone conversation with ABC, this citizen confirmed that the account belongs to him, and said that he would immediately change access passwords.
The data of the victims, which are necessary for access to the accounts, were often obtained by criminals from computers located in public access points - Internet cafes, business centers. The machines, apparently infected, transmitted the keystroke information recorded by the keyloggers, opening up space for further actions for the hackers. Criminals usually either transferred money from their accounts, selling stocks and securities, or used the latter for more sophisticated frauds (for example, they began an artificial “promotion” of controlled low-value stocks with a view to their subsequent dumping with profit).
The above manipulations were carried out with both pension (“401k” accounts) and online investment and brokerage accounts, which Americans use to increase personal savings. The victims of the criminals were clients of well-known banks and brokers: Merill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Vanguard, Ameritrade, Fidelity, T-Trade and Scott Trade.
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ABC, having decided to conduct its own investigation, asked its Russian-language trainee to “infiltrate” into the Moscow hacker community. At one of the Internet forums, “Cossacks” offered for $ 350 to buy the data of six accounts with a total amount of $ 100 thousand. One of the hackers even attached a “free sample” to his product - US citizen account data in the Ameritrade e-investment system. In a telephone conversation with ABC, this citizen confirmed that the account belongs to him, and said that he would immediately change access passwords.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/5578/
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