Hackers have stolen hundreds of millions of dollars to dozens of banks in the United States, Japan, Russia, Switzerland and the Netherlands. That writes the New York Times on the basis of a report from Kaspersky Lab Internet security guard that opens Monday. More than 100 banks in thirty countries were victims.
It all started in 2013 in Kiev. There began an ATM unexpectedly banknotes to spit out without anyone had touched or device only came close. Experts from the Russian Kaspersky Lab, which studies were the case, soon noticed that one ATM was not the main concern of the Ukrainian bank.
Malware
The entire computer system of the bank was infected with malware, which the hackers were able to follow all the activity of the bank employees. For months, the whole process of the bank was sent to the group of hackers, the researchers say.
When the criminals once had by how it daily went on in the bank, they beat their battle. She pretended to be bank staff and wrote millions of dollars from banks in Russia, Japan, Switzerland, the US and the Netherlands to fake accounts around the world.
More than 100 banks
According to the New York Times report from Kaspersky Lab that appears Monday, more than a hundred banks and financial institutions in thirty countries. “One of the biggest bank robberies ever,” says Kaspersky Lab, which refuses to mention the names of the institutions.
According to the Russian company has already proven that way at least $ 300 million (263 million euros ) is diverted. But the company estimates the size of the prey three times larger.
Two to four months were the criminals trying to slowly bring in their catch. They attributed the money to their own accounts, they change the amount on existing accounts to transfer money so without anyone noticing. Or they gave ATMs commissioned like to spit out in Kiev money to an accomplice but it just had to pick it up.
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